Health
Under climate change, winter will be the best time for bush burn-offs – which could be bad for public health – UNSW Newsroom
New research has found the window of opportunity for hazard reduction burns won’t actually get smaller, but instead change seasons.
New research has found the window of opportunity for hazard reduction burns wont actually get smaller, but instead change seasons.At the height of last summers fires, some commentators claimed greenies were preventing hazard reduction burns also known as prescribed burns in cooler months. They argued that such burns would have reduced the bushfire intensity.
Fire experts repeatedly dismissed these claims. As then NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons noted in January this year, …
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