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Australian Wildfires

Lisa Miles
Moving some posts re the Australian wildfires to a separate topic Luciano Bacco‍ 

Luciano Bacco:


Climate Crisis. The reason Australia is red. Australian wildfires have cloaked the country in a demonic red glow. As the new decade begins underneath a blood-red sky, the need for solutions is even more pressing. 
https://www.inverse.com/article/62058-why-do-wildfires-turn-the-sky-red?link_uid=9&utm_campaign=inverse-daily-2020-01-03&utm_medium=inverse&utm_source=newsletter 


And:
https://interestingengineering.com/a-magpie-in-australia-mimics-emergency-responder-sirens-because-things-are-that-bad?_source=newsletter&_campaign=a0bglamBn02qr&_uid=YQdJzWvdOG&_h=c5182a5a087e2b004ca4aca7c1e307f54e8a1507&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=mailing&utm_campaign=Newsletter-04-01-2020

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/australian-bushfires-new-south-wales-koalas-sydney-a4322071.html#spark_wn=1



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    Roger Bryant:




    If the Australians had built some nuclear power plants to use their uranium rather than coal fired plants would it have had any effect on the bush fires?

     




     

    If a river is heavily polluted, and all of the life in it has died, then one person stopping pouring chemicals down the drain won't make any real difference.  You have to stop everybody tipping chemicals down the drains.


    The same goes for coal-fired power stations.  Shutting down one or two isn't enough.  You have to shut down most of them across the entire World.  But that requires all governments to cooperate, and many won't.
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    Roger Bryant:




    If the Australians had built some nuclear power plants to use their uranium rather than coal fired plants would it have had any effect on the bush fires?

     




     

    If a river is heavily polluted, and all of the life in it has died, then one person stopping pouring chemicals down the drain won't make any real difference.  You have to stop everybody tipping chemicals down the drains.


    The same goes for coal-fired power stations.  Shutting down one or two isn't enough.  You have to shut down most of them across the entire World.  But that requires all governments to cooperate, and many won't.
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