Bread and CircusesSep 25, 2023

In case you were wondering…

Yes, Canada is still on fire. Even though summer has gone by and the traditional wildfire season is over, hundreds of forest fires continue burning, most of them out of control.

This is intensely sad to me, not to mention frightening, and it’s a blatantly ominous sign that we are in the midst of a climate emergency.

#Canada #Wildfire #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Show threadJanPVSep 25, 2023
@breadandcircuses And here's the live view from space: PM1 particles. There have been sightings of stratospheric smoke layers from the western UK over the past few days.
Show threadZoom EarthSep 25, 2023
@JanPV @breadandcircuses That is a forecast actually, although it is a reasonably accurate visualization of PM1. Here’s the recent satellite view: https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=58.149,-118.417,6z/date=2023-09-22,21:50/overlays=heat
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Show threaddraNgNon

@zoom_earth @JanPV
even so, won't that low spinning off the BC coast bring much-needed rain to the situation?

@breadandcircuses

Sep 25, 2023 at 4:32pmWeb
Show threadViolet MadderSep 25, 2023

@draNgNon @zoom_earth @JanPV @breadandcircuses Only so much the rain can do, when there's been too little of it for too long.

And as temperatures increase, more and more thawed & rotting permafrost will be burning underground for decades to come.