Outback Tornado
National Geographic
Ker Than
September 20th, 2012

This article is about a video shot by an Australian News crew. They were in the outback filming a wildfire that had been raging and they ended up getting a fire tornado on camera.  To the film crew and those who saw it on tv this was an incredibly rare occurrence and something that is pretty amazing to see. One of the witnesses described it as the sound of a jet flying directly overhead when there was absolutely no wind in the area surrounding them. This would seem to be an incredibly unlikely event in nature but as the article says its actually some what common. The reason we think these are uncommon is because the majority of the time they happen it is without a human witness. The way this applies to our ESS class is the fact that humans don't see a lot of things in nature. We do not necessarily see the impact we make on the environment immediately, if even at all. What we need to do is be constantly vigilant in the environmental to changes that could have been caused by human activity. Otherwise there could be an enormous change in an ecosystem without our knowledge simply because we haven't looked.