#wildfires

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

It's bad enough that wildfires are driving up the price of lumber and the droughts have already driven up the price of food, but hey--what's another wildfire burning up most of our wheat, corn & other grain production too.


Dragofix - 2024-11-03 17:11:53 GMT

If Trump dismantles the NOAA, it will affect wildfires and food prices #UnitedStates #USA #US #environment #wildfire #wildfires #food #NOAA #politics #USpol #Trump arstechnica.com/science/2024/1…

girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net

#utah #wildfires
Sunday July 14, 2024
I'm listening to this video.
The refreshing sound of rain that brings healing and relaxation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtgvkG8e2go

UTAH, USA.
More of Utah will be catching on fire.
Red Flag (Fire Weather) Warning
National Weather Service

RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR DRY THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES
Downtown Salt Lake City is a Microwave.

girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net

#wildfires #usa #west
Oh! Here we go again. Year after year after year. Massive Wildfires in the American West.

WILDFIRE SEASON 2024
Wildfire near LA,California spreads to more than 15,600 acres, 20% containment.

girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net

#climate #change #wildfires #heat
Photograph: Wildfires in Utah, USA

Living in the American West, I'm preparing the best I can for a dreadful 2024 summer - wildfire air pollution and high temperature.
It's like living inside a microwave over - with smoke.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/03/weather/california-heat-dome-wildfires-west-climate/index.html

anonymiss@despora.de

No #internet, no #phone: #Canada #wildfires expose fragility of rural #infrastructure

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/internet-access-rural-canada-wildfires

Northwestel, which provides telecommunications for the #Yukon, Northwest Territories, #Nunavut and northern #BritishColumbia announced on Friday that a wildfire had damaged a critical fibre optic cable near the town of #FortNelson. The company said it had also lost its redundancy cable due to a separate wildfire burning near Jean Marie River and #Kakisa in the Northwest Territories.

#news #disaster #climate #environment

berternste2@diasp.nl

World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say

the Guardian

Disastrous events included flash flooding in Africa and wildfires in Europe and North America. (...)

“When our children and grandchildren look back at the history of human-made climate change, this year and next will be seen as the turning point at which the futility of governments in dealing with climate change was finally exposed,” he said. “Not only did governments fail to stem global warming, the rate of global warming actually accelerated.” (...)

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Photo of flash flood
Flash floods in the Libyan city of Derna were the most deadly climate disaster of 2023, killing 11,300 people. Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images.

“The bright side of this clear dichotomy is that young people may realise that they must take charge of their future. The turbulent status of today’s politics may provide opportunity,” he said.

His comments are a reflection of the dismay among experts at the enormous gulf between scientific warnings and political action. It has taken almost 30 years for world leaders to acknowledge that fossil fuels are to blame for the climate crisis, yet this year’s United Nations Cop28 summit in Dubai ended with a limp and vague call for a “transition away” from them, even as evidence grows that the world is already heating to dangerous levels. (...)

Veteran climate watchers have been horrified at the pace of change. “The climate year 2023 is nothing but shocking, in terms of the strength of climate occurrences, from heatwaves, droughts, floods and fires, to rate of ice melt and temperature anomalies particularly in the ocean,” Prof Johan Rockström, the joint director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said.

He said these new developments indicated the Earth was in uncharted territory ​​and under siege. (...)

[W]hat disturbed him most in 2023 was the sharp increase in sea surface temperatures, which have been abrupt even for an El Niño year. (...)

In the Antarctic, scientists have also been perplexed and worried by the pace of change. (...)

[H]uman influence – through the burning of fossil fuels – had also created “frightening” dynamics between the poles and the tropics. Cold wet fronts from the Antarctic had interacted with record heat and drought in the Amazon to create unprecedented storms in between. (...)

This year’s deadliest climate disaster was the flood in Libya that killed more than 11,300 people in the coastal city of Derna. In a single day, Storm Daniel unleashed 200 times as much rain as usually falls on the city in the entire month of September. (...)

Forest fires burned a record area in Canada and Europe, and killed about 100 people in Lahaina on Maui island, the deadliest wildfire in US history, which happened in August. (...)

Complete article

Tags: #climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #energy #energy_transition #carbon_footprint #global_warming #fossil_fuel #extreme_weather #storms #floodings #flash_floods #forest_fires #wildfires #heat_waves #cop28

rich@diaspora.psyco.fr

#arson #wildfires
Greece wildfires: 79 people arrested for arson
Greece has called out "arsonist scum" after police made 79 arson arrests over wildfires ravaging the country. Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said there had been several attempts by arsonists to start new fires on Mount Parnitha, north-west of Athens.

Greek fires rage after migrant tragedy near border

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66612781

faab64@diasp.org

Storms Expected to Break Record-Setting Heatwave in Ital

Temperatures across Italy will be impacted by a "thermal collapse" created by weather systems from northern #Europe.

The scorching heatwave and drought that have gripped much of Italy this summer are set to give way to rain, hail and flood warnings over the weekend.

Italy has seen record temperatures in multiple cities this summer, resulting in widespread "red alerts" that signify health risks even for young and healthy individuals.

The heat and dry weather have resulted in many #wildfires, and the erosion of the country's #glaciers. According to #Italy's main agriculture union Coldiretti, these conditions have cost Italian farmers at least 6 billion euros in damage to crops.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Storms-Expected-to-Break-Record-Setting-Heatwave-in-Italy-20230825-0004.html

#WeDontHaveTime #Politics #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateEmergency #TomorrowIsTooLate #GlobalWarming #Environment #GlobalBoiling #PointOfNoReturn