Kevin RussellJust to clarify, when the CBC first put up their graph of the area being destroyed by wildfire, the graph only went up to 6 million hectares.
Its 16.3 million burned now
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@kevinrns I saw the “since 2016” and immediately thought there might be some data shenanigans going on. I remember some bad wildfires in 2015 - were they intentionally excluding to make this year look “historically bad” when really it’s just a once-a-decade thing?
Oh, look, the 2015 fires were so bad there’s a Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Canadian_wildfires
“…and more than 1,900,000 hectares (4,700,000 acres) of forest had burned.”
Oh. No. Never mind.
And not only is the fire season worse than all previous years BEFORE THE SEASON EVEN STARTED, its still roaring now.
It is still roaring now 300,000 Hectares were added to total this week.
There are still 1000 fires now, 10 times larger fires than previous years (each fire is BIGGER) and 700 of those fires are classed "Out of Control"
This is the graph for today.
Sept 3rd, the fire season is over. (Note the grey lines of previous years are flat, burn area not growing)
#Climate
Autumn GrayYou can read stories on growing drought worldwide, the growing drought is shoving the balanced system sideways. 18 months ago four of the worlds great rivers ran dry on three continents. Europe's forests are in danger of dying where they stand.
There are hundreds of millions of hectares of forest across four time zones.
The CONDITIONS have changed. Australia burned, California.
CO2 HOLDS heat, like a car at Walmart with the windows up.