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.
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