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More than 220,000 evacuated in France and Spain due to wildfires
#ExtremeHeat #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis
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More than 220,000 evacuated in France and Spain due to wildfires
French firefighters battle a blaze heading towards Bordeaux while officials in Madrid say they face the "worst fire in the history of the region".Jessica Rawnsley (BBC News)
What is going on at the Times?
They have a main headline attacking net zero over a photo of the French wildfires arguably caused by climate change?
Are the editors stupid?
Do they think their readers are?
Are they trying to subvert their own message?
#politics #ukpolitics #times #thetimes #climate #climatechange #wildfires
Apocalypse picnic
Lacanau, France
People sit on the beach of Moutchic as smoke rises into the sky from a wildfire. Authorities in south-western France have ordered the total evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula on the Atlantic coast by land and sea as an ‘intense and highly unpredictable’ wildfire advances on one of the country’s best-known holiday spots.
Photograph: Maximilien Lamy/AFP/Getty Images
#photography
#wildfires
#France
#beach
Holy shit - Madrid fire is massive, 10's of thousands evacuated
The space radio telescope complex near the city is on fire
#Madrid #Madridfire #Wildfires #Climate #ClimateChange
"European nations battle wildfires driven by ongoing heat wave"
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"Northern Japan wildfires prompt mass evacuations as flames spread"
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"Forest Fires On The Rise In A Warming India: Make It Part Of Climate Policy"
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Build the New Energy, or burn.
#climate #Exxon #heat #wildfires #world
Suman Sahai | Forest Fires On The Rise In A Warming India: Make It Part Of Climate Policy…
Climate scientists have warned for decades if we can’t control global warming, wildfires will become more frequent and more intense.Dr Suman Sahai (Deccan Chronicle)
Meanwhile the area by where we are is also burning. 200-300 hectares of the Dublin-Wicklow uplands scorched. Apparently under control now.
(You can smell the smoke in the air in Bray; found ash on my clothes after my morning walk.)
I decided not to report this yesterday (Sunday) because it seemed like an empty threat.
#Trump was hosting #Carney for the World Cup final when he went on one of his forest fire tirades.
Trump told reporters that he spoke to Carney about the need to stop #wildfires in #Canada. He said that they should “pay us some damages or something, or we should do some tariffs.”
Ludicrous right?
Except now…
Another Indigenous community in Ontario has been lost to the climate fires 🔥
The community of Whitewater Lake First Nation has been lost to the devastating wildfires in Northwestern ON 💔
#Wildfires #Ontario #ClimateChane #GlobalWarming #Indigenous
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Statement from Chief Pauline Drake - Nishnawbe Aski Nation
It is with profound sadness and an overwhelming sense of loss that Chief Pauline Drake announces the devastation of her beloved community, Whitewater Lake, as a result of the wildfires raging across Northwestern Ontario.Nishnawbe Aski Nation
'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies have only one true fix.
The sad truth about the Canadian wildfires (gift link):
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When the boreal forests of Canada catch on fire, no one can do anything about it in many cases.
Many people simply don’t grasp the sheer magnitude of the boreal forest or what it would take to manage fires across its enormous area, Jed Kaplan, a professor in the Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment at the University of Calgary, told me: “You can’t control these fires. You cannot put personnel, fire engines, over an area that is the size of the entire American South, or something like that. It’s just way too big of an area.”
And so the fires spread, pouring out smoke that washes over the residents of faraway cities.
Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn
Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control.Joshua Partlow (The Atlantic)
I mean seriously.
This from a guy who rolled back #environmental #regulations, claims #ClimateChange is a hoax, actually spent #TaxpayersMoney to NOT build green #energy solutions, &—oh yeah—says we just need to “rake the leaves” off forest floors to avoid #wildfires -- BUT gutted the freaking EPA, NPS & anyone who might be slightly capable of detecting/preventing fires.
Moron.
#Trump says he’s holding #Canada responsible for #wildfire #smoke, threatens #tariffs.
This is no exaggeration; there’s smoke lingering in the streets & lawns, visibility is less than 1 mile, you cannot see the horizon.
#Smoke Floating Far From #CanadaWildfires Will Darken Skies Again on Thursday
#AirQuality in several cities reached hazardous levels Thursday morning as smoke was expected to move across #NorthAmerica.
#wildfires #PublicHealth #pollution #air #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today.
Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate.
This government is spending billions of dollars in public money to expand the very industry that’s causing climate breakdown — at a moment when renewables are cheaper and more available than ever before.
No more climate-wrecking corporate welfare. We need a government that protects the people and places we love.
#canada #cdnpoli #climate #wildfires
Smoke from the wildfires in north western Ontario will blanket the southern part of the province as well as the east coast of the US, consequences of yet another heatwave.
Video is of a Canadian train crew surrounded by raging wildfire flames yesterday near Armstrong, Ontario.
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Wildfires
How #ClimateChange influences #ExtremeWeather
How science shows us how warming makes #HeatWaves, #floods, #hurricanes, and #wildfires more likely or more severe — and why this #science is becoming a major public-policy battleground.
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How climate change influences extreme weather
How science shows us how warming makes heat waves, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires more likely or more severe — and why this science is becoming a major public-policy battleground.Andrew Dessler (The Climate Brink)
Feedback of global warming:
"We treat each WIE source independently and do not account for interactions between them, such as permafrost thaw expanding wetland extent through thermokarst formation, or the recursive effect where WIE-induced warming itself drives further WIE".
"For CO2, which accumulates in the atmosphere, a sustained emission rate produces a radiative forcing that increases over time, so the cumulative impact on carbon budgets depends on the duration of elevated temperature, not just the magnitude of warming. When we evaluate our permafrost CO2 results to compare with the AR6 framework, we find that the correction terms are 60, 123, and 138 Pg CO2 ℃⁻¹ for SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, and SSP4-6.0, respectively".
excerpt from Sam Abernethy et al. (2026). doi.org/10.22541/essoar.150023…
#climateChange #globalWarming #permafrost #emissions #carbon #wildfires #wetlands #methane #CO2
