Canadian Climate Wildfire Catastrophe 🇨🇦 🔥
None of these numbers is a good number.
Past fire season crises ended by September.
More 'Out of Control' fires than last three weeks, still robustly over 1,000 fires, now officially over 16 million hectares burned, still appalling lack of resources to fight the fires with.
The big red Five badge is
1. Extreme danger
2. terrible fire levels
3. bad fires still coming
4. Low resources
5. Low resources for member agencies
Canadian Climate Wildfire Catastrophic Alarm 🇨🇦 🔥 🚨
How big is 16 million hectares? Get out a map of your area, no a bigger one.
Find the scale on one edge, little ruler with 100 200 etc
Draw a box on the map 400 kilometers long, and 400 kilometers tall, here are two.
The horrible, economy ruining, community destroying, forest razing, murderous, fire is not the crisis.
It is the alarm for the crisis.
Pakistan is an alarm still reeling a year after one #climate storm, the roots of the fire are an alarm.
International firefighters said they couldn't walk, put out fires at 6 kilometers a day as before, because they had to dig out fire in roots.👈ALARM
Because forests around the world are dry as kindling, ready to flare at any spark.
Higher surface temperature = higher water storage capacity of the air + higher evaporation = more moisture going from trees and ground into the air.
Will get worse and worse with increasing temperatures, until we stop adding CO2 into our atmosphere.
It's the fossil fuels!
And German Minister of State says European Forests are on the brink.
And tropical forests, and the flash roaring fire in Hawaii burning to ash killing hundreds(?)
INSIST ON BUILDING THE NEW ENERGY, NOW. NOW!
https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/tropical-trees-are-dying-dehydration-due-climate-change
Tropical trees in Australia’s rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, potentially because of climate change, according to an international study published May 18 in the journal Nature. Researchers found the death rates of tropical trees have doubled in the past 35 years as global warming increases the drying power of the atmosphere. Intact tropical rainforests are major stores of carbon, absorbing around 12% of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions.
Its even worse thsn that, it is both still roaring, still 1000 fires, most out of control, and its twice the burn size of Australia 2020.
Australia, followed by California, were ALARMS, deafening and insistent.
We insist, build all the solar and wind energy systems now, ar speed. End gd coal. End carbon fuels.
Fires triggered by climate change threaten plant diversity in many biomes. Here the authors investigate how the catastrophic fires of 2019–2020 affected the vascular flora of SE Australia. They report that 816 species were highly impacted, including taxa of biogeographic and conservation interest.
@kevinrns the nature article only mentions NSW and Vic. There were also fires across the rest of the continent. And we look like more coming this spring/summer? Fed by 2 years of floods.
The end result is catastrophe. Stopping fossil fuels is but one step. Clearing land is another cause (Australia excels at this) together with making concrete and farting/belching cows.
There is so much to do, so little time to do it. Billionaires fiddle while the planet burns. 😥😥
It has nothing to do with billionaires, if there were a hurricane through New Jersey or Sydney, everyone would demand help delivered now, now now, if Japan struck Pearl Harbor, there would be no "billionaires this..:
Its us, we demand,
demand, the Alarms really are screaming, it is here.
Its a bus, tumbling off a cliff, because the balance shoved sideways by heat. Who foresaw Pakustan?
Who predicted that BC would be devastated year after year, storm rivers washing away new bridges and old, kilometers of highway, that 600 would die in their homes without flame or fire, just from the heat.
All distraction, Paris and COP is a faked delay, a denial, a selling of burning more oil.
Build all the sun and wind we need to end carbon, like tanls for war.
This one is funny eh? Who is he attempting to bring hell to? And live in himself, for a while? What a weirdo.
@kevinrns Crumbs. 16 million hectares in Canada have already burned?!
To put that into perspective for those of us down here in Australasia, Aotearoa-New Zealand's South Island is 15 million hectares, and Tasmania is 9 million hectares.
(The 2019–20 Australian Black Summer fires burned about 24.3 million hectares when they were done.)
@kevinrns or another way to grasp it. It is an area the size of:
New York (the whole state from way up north to NYC)
And basically
All of New Jersey
Or
All of Illinois with nearly all of Deleware and Rhode Island
Or an area of CA roughly from Santa Barbara to San Diego and making a rough square with Las Vegas as a straight line from Los Angeles. With everything in between.
(The later might be complicated by measuring the 3D area of mountains but it’s a rough approximation)
~89% of my home state of Missouri 🤯
I did the math, my image isn’t perfect.
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