PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation with Australian Naturalist Danielle Clode about the history of bushfires in Australia and also about the elevated risk of fire season in all Australia in an El Nino summer.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Bachelor. |
| 0:31.0 | I speak to the author Daniel Clode about bushfires. |
| 0:35.0 | It is bushfire season in Australia. |
| 0:37.5 | Daniel wrote a book 10 years ago, Future in Flames. |
| 0:41.0 | It's more relevant now than ever because of climate change and this is an |
| 0:44.7 | El Nino year I learned that means drier and much hotter in Australia in the |
| 0:50.8 | southern hemisphere combining with the heavy rains of these last years |
| 0:56.0 | creating a lot of fuel underneath the eucalyptus forest, which in Australia is like |
| 1:01.4 | lighting a match around something soaked with gasoline. |
| 1:05.2 | Eucalyptus burns. |
| 1:06.6 | It burns fast. |
| 1:08.4 | So the bushfires of Australia, there are bushfires in the Mediterranean Basin, They're not they're called wildfires there. They're called wildfires in California |
| 1:18.1 | The phenomenon is always the same what is to be done. When do you leave? Can you you defend your house here's Danielle talking about |
| 1:25.1 | the new way that bush fires are regarded in Australia getting worse Daniel clode |
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