Dr. CHAD HANSON on the Myths & Misinformation of Wildland Fires /97

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🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Join us to learn about what happens in a post fire habitat, why fire is an ecological treasure, not a disaster, how significantly climate change will impact wildfires, and why both politicians and the United States Forest Service have a vested interest in spreading misinformation when it comes to forest management.Support the show

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0:46.5	Hey for the wild community,
0:48.2	I wanted to let you know that we had a follow-up call
0:50.6	with Dr. Chad Hanson last night about the current fires raging in California right now.
0:56.5	So stay tuned after the show and you'll be able to hear some extra questions with Dr.
1:02.0	Chad Hanson. Now on to the show. In the era of climate change and when we have such threats to biodiversity,
1:19.0	we have to recognize that there is a growing consensus among the scientific community
1:23.4	nationally and globally that in order to avert in order to avoid the very worst effects of
1:29.3	climate change we need to not only move beyond fossil fuel consumption. We need to also dramatically increase forest protection and pull a bunch more CO2 out of the atmosphere.
1:42.3	And that's the only way we're going to get there.
1:43.7	We can't not get to our climate change mitigation goals just by moving beyond fossil fuel
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