New paper finds European fire activity is at lowest levels of past 10,000 years – Published in Quaternary Science Reviews
New paper finds European fire activity is at lowest levels of past 10,000 years
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-paper-finds-european-fire-activity.html
A new paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews reconstructs fire activity in Central-Eastern Europe over the past 12,000 years and finds modern fire activity is near the lowest levels of the past 10,000 years. The paper adds to many others finding a long-term decrease in fire activity, despite claims of climate alarmists.
The paper also shows that reconstructed early and late summer temperatures in Central-Eastern Europe have both declined over the past ~10,000 years.
The US is currently experiencing the lowest fire activity in three decades, and the current New South Wales fires have nothing to do with CO2.
Reconstructed fire activity shown in top graph is at the lowest levels of the past 10,000 years. Reconstructed early and late summer temperatures in Central-Eastern Europe have declined over the past ~10,000 years, shown in 2nd graph from bottom. Horizontal axis is thousands of years before the present.
12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach
A. Feurdeana, b, , , ,
J. Liakkab,
B. Vannièrec,
E. Marinovad,
S.M. Hutchinsone,
V. Mosburggera,
T. Hicklera, b, f
a Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
b Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
c CNRS, UMR 6249 Chrono-Environnement, Université de Franche-Comté, 16 route de Gray, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
d Centre for Archaeological Sciences, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, Bus 2408, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
e School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK
f Goethe University, Department of Physical Geography, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Highlights
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First multi-proxy record and climate modelling of fire regime in CE Europe.
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Strong influence of early summer temperature and moisture content on fire activity.
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High sensitivity of fire activity to the short-lived climate events.
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Frequent fires associated with open woodlands, whereas the decline in fire risk favoured woodland development.
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Synergic influence of natural and human factors on fire frequency from 3300 BP.
Abstract
The usefulness of sedimentary charcoal records to document centennial to millennial scale trends in aspects of fire regimes (frequency, severity) is widely acknowledged, yet the long-term variability in these regimes is poorly understood. Here, we use a high-resolution, multi-proxy analysis of a lacustrine sequence located in …
Aussie’s ABC plan to stop bushfires with windmills and buckets of your cash
ABC plan to stop bushfires with windmills and buckets of your cash
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/10/abc-plan-to-stop-bushfires-with-windmills-and-buckets-of-your-cash/
The Australian media are going all out on climate change and bushfires. The ABC 7:30 Report last night clearly laid out the options for preventing mega bush-fires. Funded by you whether you like it or not. Watch the whole bizarre post-modern witchcraft here: ABC Channel 1 Yes, the world has warmed by 0.7C since 1900. We are living in a new climate. Before, when things were, on average imperceptibly cooler, megafires did not happen. Right? Thanks to Peter Ritson for the short video version. “The Science is in”. Annabel Crabb tells us “The link is established between climate change and bushfires”. (What “link” would that be Annabel? — That when there is a bushfire there are more media stories about climate change?) As Simon at ClimateMadness jokes, obviously there is no groupthink at the ABC because they put forward all the views from every side of Greenness: So they invite John Connor, alarmist from the Climate Institute, who essentially agreed with Adam Bandt, alarmist from the Greens, who essentially agreed with Don Henry, alarmist from the Australian Conservation Foundation, who essentially agreed with Andy Pitman, alarmist from UNSW, who essentially agreed with Don Henry (again), […]Rating: 10.0/10 (9 votes cast)
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Flashback February 6, 1851: 1/4th of Victoria burned in one day. 12 million acres and 1 million cattle. CO2 280 PPM
@AGW_Prof @thewest_com_au February 6, 1851 : 1/4th of Victoria burned in one day. 12 million acres and 1 million cattle. CO2 280 PPM
Warmists go full stupid: Claim: ‘Australian wildfires put heat on climate change sceptic Abbott’ – – Rebuttal: ‘Shane Fitzsimmons, said the state was facing its worst fire conditions since the 1960s’ CO2 320 PPM In 1965
@AGW_Prof @thewest_com_au “Shane Fitzsimmons, said the state was facing its worst fire conditions since the 1960s”
CO2 320 PPM In 1965
Leading scientist: Linking the bushfire disaster in NSW to climate change is ‘absolute nonsense’
Leading scientist: Linking the bushfire disaster in NSW to climate change is “absolute nonsense” http://t.co/TzZCu7XO4t
Moronic: Greens MP links Australia’s NSW bush fires to climate policy
Moronic: Greens MP links NSW bush fires to climate policy
Greens see an opportunity to make cheap political points
Adam Bandt is a typical Greenie, and because he, like all the rest of them, are on an ideological crusade and generally possess no brains, they are unable to understand even the basic facts about Australia’s contribution to “global warming”, which is why Bandt has claimed on social media that the Coalition’s climate policy will cause more bush fires, like those suffered by many areas yesterday.
Never mind the fact that over 100 homes may have been destroyed and many others damaged by the fires (which were intense due to a strong wind, but not at all unusual or unprecedented), Bandt was more interested in scoring cheap political points:
Why Tony Abbott’s plan means more bush fires for Australia & more pics like this of Sydney http://t.co/bXFaAT6kLf http://t.co/tJyljLIGp4
— Adam Bandt (@AdamBandt) October 17, 2013
And being the brainless greenie he is, he continued to defend the indefensible today:
Mr Bandt said the link between extreme weather events and global warming needs to be recognised.
“Global warming is the biggest threat to Australian life,” he said.
“I don’t want every summer, let alone every spring, for us to be worrying about whether we are going to see these kind of bush fires again, to have to worry about threats to people’s property and threats to people’s safety.”
Not quite sure why Bandt finds this so difficult to comprehend, but Australia’s emissions are 1.5% of the global total. If we reduced that to zero overnight, it would make no difference at all to the climate. As it is, we are only planning to reduce by 5% by 2020, or in other words, 0.075% of global emissions, when the major emitters are doing close to nothing by comparison.
And Bandt thinks that will make a difference to bush fire frequency or intensity?
Idiotic statements like this will ensure the Greens are consigned to the sewer of Australian political history, where they rightly belong.
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