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Macroscien said..very interesting point takes from Prof. Dale Dominey-Howes publication
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/09/11/are-we-facing-a-catastrophic-bushfire-season.html Now , to my critics above. How actually we are going to address this low humidity factors?
Any proposition Chris ? Here is finding by the finest expert we could find.
Interestingly article is dated September 2019 and could serve well as a warning to all interested, but I feel past mostly unnoticed. This is only example that is not me that do not listen to our experts, Chris.
But you completely ignore the realities of physics.
1- you've given no evidence for your claim that there will be significantly higher humidity over a lake. This study found the opposite;
books.google.com.au/books?id=5S85TVZmzSIC&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=humidity+near+lakes&source=bl&ots=-FbwMqPw_M&sig=ACfU3U3IjvCJfrKnZ0fo3qJWK116SLGzYA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4y5Llof3mAhUFiOYKHbPtBvYQ6AEwEXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=humidity%20near%20lakes&f=falseSometimes the humidity over a lake is higher but sometimes it is lower because the water in the air condenses onto the lake. Yep, I know, you are a God and therefore you know more than the people who actually went out and got the data; you showed that you worship yourself when you said the authors of the CSIRO/BoM paper, who actually spent years learning this stuff and actually used rainfall records from Lake Eyre, are morons and you are a god who knows better than they do.
2- Most of our fires are not near anywhere you could feasibly put a lake without vast and permanent destruction.
3- There would be vast and permanent destruction of the rivers you want to dam. What happens when the mangroves, salt marshes and other flora you want to kill die off? Do you think there will be no consequences?
4- If lakes created rainfall and stopped bushfires, why the hell is Sydney's water supply in the centre of a major fire? Why is the huge dam on the Shoalhaven in the middle of a major fire? Why did the area near Forster, near a huge lake, suffer a major fire? Why does the area around Lake Macquarie, a huge lake, often burn? Why are there fires on the shores of Lake Blowering? Why are there fires on the shores of Lake Eucumbene, fires near Lakes Darmouth and Hume, fires all the way to the Pacific Ocean near Batemans Bay, most of a town gone at LAKE Conjola, the western shore of St Georges Basin burned, the whole shoreline of Lake Cathie burned, the area all sides of the lake at Mallacoota burned. There's surf clubs under ember attack, sailing clubs being saved by water bombers putting out fires in the vegetation on the dunes.
I don't know if you've ever fought a fire on a lake shore with the RFS. I have. Only someone who has completely ignored reality would claim that the areas near shorelines will be protected from fires like this. The truth is that areas around lakes and the ocean itself are burning and the baseless claim that artificial lakes will stop fires is complete bull****, complete ignorance, and a complete lie.