#wildfires
@zoom_earth Promoting to #Australia #Wildfires
#BCwx #BCfire #wildfires #Canada Current Wildfire Information: Oct. 1, 2023. https://www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/current-wildfire-information-2023/
Good Morning, sunny day here.
#Cooking , (with the fan on) drives up the particulates quickly. Read 27 for a min or so.
They also come down rapidly when air purifiers go to work. This Temtop model for 45cad was a decent purchase, I think.
#Montreal AQI is still a bit high…and will continue to climb. Better get out now while it’s acceptable. #Wildfires #smoke #canada #quebec
I would like to get in touch with someone from the indigenous community in Lahaina if possible, to ask about their experience and thoughts about what's happened to the town. Can anyone help please? This is for a climate week on uk community radio. Thank you. #Lahaina #hawaii #wildfires
#climate #wildfires #AirQuality
As this visualization of smoke plume extents is provided by U.S. agencies, it doesn't show large wildfires outside the U.S. (Only satellite detections.)
Another #truth on #TruthandReconciliation day:
#Indigenous people on-reserve are not given postal codes from #Canada Post (a crown corporation) which excludes them from obtaining house insurance. That is a colonial policy that robs people of the opportunity they need to insure they have a place to live amid record #wildfires.
#BCwx #BCfire #wildfires #Canada Current Wildfire Information: Sept. 30, 2023. https://www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/current-wildfire-information-2023/
Global News BC: How to manage Canada’s ‘unprecedented’ wildfires before they start https://globalnews.ca/news/9993619/canada-record-wildfire-season-frontlines/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #WildfireFirefighters #BCWildfireService #Prescribedburning #RossMooreLakeFire #RossmooreLakefire #culturalburning #Controlledfire #indigenousfire #Prescribedfire #BCwildfires #controlline #Wildfires #fireline #Fire
#climate #wildfires #AirQuality
As this visualization of smoke plume extents is provided by U.S. agencies, it doesn't show large wildfires outside the U.S. (Only satellite detections.)
"Oregon promised permanent housing for wildfire survivors. Victims are still waiting 3 years later."
Week 212 of fasting on Fridays for the climate crisis. Week 212 of striking from working and shopping on Fridays for the climate emergency.
#degrowth #globalheating #globalboiling #heatwaves #Wildfire #wildfires #flood #floods #ClimateMigration #climatechange #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow
#ClimateJustice #ClimateJusticeNow #ClimateStrike #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Earth #environment #FridaysForFuture #FastFairForever #friday #fridays #fasting #intermittentfasting #savetheplanet #savetheearth #savetheocean #savethebees #savethetrees
#BCWILDFIRE #BCwx #BCfire #wildfires #Canada Changes to area restrictions in the Prince George Fire Centre https://blog.gov.bc.ca/bcwildfire/changes-to-area-restrictions-in-pgfc/
Positive feedback loops adding fuel to future wildfires.
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/29/canadas-hellish-wildfire-season-defies-the-calendar
#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #feedbackLoop #Nature #Science #Canada #World #Wildfires #Smoke #Climate #ClimateChange #Inflation
#BCwx #BCfire #wildfires #Canada Current Wildfire Information: Sept. 29, 2023. https://www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/current-wildfire-information-2023/
LATimes: Is California’s wildfire season finally over? Don’t bet on it, experts say #wildfires #california https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-09-29/is-the-california-wildfire-season-over
#climate #wildfires #AirQuality
As this visualization of smoke plume extents is provided by U.S. agencies, it doesn't show large wildfires outside the U.S. (Only satellite detections.)
Fires in Canada might finally be burning out soon.
https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/
#Canada #Wildfires #ArborealForest #Smoke #Fires #ClimateChange
Crandall thinks of the people across the country who are dying from #wildfires, #heat waves & #hurricanes & said the looming #shutdown “highlights the cowardice of the #GOP.”
“It is terrifying to me as a young person,” she said, “that the GOP is threatening to shut down the government & defund #social programs in a time where the #ClimateCrisis is literally raging outside of our front door.”
Get out those air purifiers and masks ##montreal We have 2 days where the #AQI is over 100.
#canada #smoke #quebec #wildfires
#MaskUp #alberta #yukon #nwt #Yellowknife #pollution #globalwarming
#BCWILDFIRE #BCwx #BCfire #wildfires #Canada Provincial Wildfire Status Update – Sept. 28, 2023 https://blog.gov.bc.ca/bcwildfire/provincial-wildfire-status-update-sept-28-2023/
#BCWILDFIRE #BCwx #BCfire #wildfires #Canada Campfire prohibition rescinded in Prince George Fire Centre https://blog.gov.bc.ca/bcwildfire/campfire-prohibition-rescinded-in-prince-george-fire-centre/
Article on the massive disinformation and conspiracies behind the Lahaina, Maui, wildfire disaster. The reason for the spread, per NPR: "Now, they rapidly gain an audience on platforms like X — renamed from Twitter — after Elon Musk took over and most of its staff working on content moderation left or were laid off." #wildfires #disinformation #conspiracy #birdsite #fires https://www.npr.org/2023/09/28/1202110410/how-rumors-and-conspiracy-theories-got-in-the-way-of-mauis-fire-recovery?ft=nprml&f=1019
BBC regional weather forecast for the East Midlands has been demonstrating the local effects of the Canadian wild fires in our region.
I find this a bit scary tbh.
Cultural Burn at UCSB. "Prescribed cultural burn of approximately 14 acres of restored native perennial grassland.... This one-day burn will restore traditional practices that enhance the biodiversity of native grasslands. It will also help the community reconnect to the land, plants, and wildlife by learning about the long history of indigenous burning. " #CulturalBurn #SantaBarbara #wildfires https://www.independent.com/2023/09/28/cultural-burn-at-ucsb-to-occur-september-28/
Watch Duty App Now Available in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino: Watch Duty, the only app that provides real-time wildfire information, announced that it has added language support for Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino. #WatchDuty #wildfires https://watchduty.org
He also will unveil a new national strategy for bolstering #infrastructure against #wildfires, #hurricanes & other weather disasters during a climate resilience summit on Thurs afternoon at the #WhiteHouse.
The new building standard will have “three pillars,” said a snr #Biden admin ofcl…. It will require buildings to be #EnergyEfficient, produce no on-site #emissions & use 100% #RenewableEnergy….
#BCwx #BCfire #wildfires #Canada Current Wildfire Information: Sept. 28, 2023. https://www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/current-wildfire-information-2023/
Disinformation campaigns in #Spanish on the rise claiming "wildfires are intentionally created to clear land for renewable energy projects, such as windmills or solar farms. Others spread disinformation about renewable energy projects’ harming animals or polluting the environment" #wildfires #energy #spanish #disinfo #disinformation #climate https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/spanish-language-misinformation-false-renewable-energy-climate-rcna117631?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=65156e4606576b00011d8803&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon
CBC: 2023 is now officially the most expensive, most destructive wildfire season on record in B.C. #Canada #wildfires #climate https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wildfire-danger-reducing-1.6980041?cmp=mastodon
"The Forest Service hopes to restore fish habitats affected by the 2020 fires through a new $10 million, eight-year agreement with nonprofit Trout Unlimited." #wildlife #USFS #EastTroublesomeFire #CameronPeakFire #Colorado #Wildfires https://coloradosun.com/2023/09/28/forest-service-trout-unlimited-fire-recovery/?utm_content=buffer4bbfe&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer
#climate #wildfires #AirQuality
As this visualization of smoke plume extents is provided by U.S. agencies, it doesn't show large wildfires outside the U.S. (Only satellite detections.)
De wild fires in Canada kwamen niet vaak in het nieuws hier, maar ze brandden dit jaar het hele seizoen op bijzonder grote schaal verder...
📷 ** Weeks since the start of the fire season (April 28, 2021 = week 17)
Canadian Wildland Fire Information System | Weekly graphs - Canada.ca
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/report/graphs
#Canada #WildFires
What a summer that was — the hottest ever recorded globally and the worst for wildfires in Canadian history.
Dry conditions and warmer-than-usual temperatures helped fuel a long and unrelenting wildfire season that, to date, has burned more than 17,500,000 hectares, a 647 per cent increase over the 10-year average.
And the fires are still burning.
What could 2024 have in store?
#Wildfires #Canada #WildfireSmoke #ClimateChange
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/2024-wildfire-season-el-nino-1.6978559
Local #Nebraska fire departments are asking people to be cautious as fall conditions could help spark #wildfires. Last year was the second-worst fire season in Nebraska’s recorded history. 🔥 🚒
https://www.klkntv.com/it-doesnt-take-much-of-a-spark-nebraska-fire-departments-warn-of-fall-wildfires/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wildfire-danger-reducing-1.6980041 “According to the #BCWildfireService (#BCWS), a total of 2,217 #Wildfires have been detected this year, burning almost 25,000 square kilometres of trees, bush and grassland. That makes it B.C.'s worst season by land burned, easily surpassing the previous record of 13,540 square kilometres in 2018.
The cost of fighting those fires is also significantly up, to approximately $770 million, more than the $649 million spent in 2017.”
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM 5PM TUESDAY THROUGH 5AM THURSDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE SANTA YNEZ RANGE AND SURROUNDING FOOTHILLS AND MOUNTAINS...
.A combination of moderately strong northerly pressure gradients, weak cold advection, and increasing winds aloft will contribute to the first Fire Weather Watch of the season over the Santa Ynez Mountain Range.
https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/#2023-O-NEW-KLOX-FW-A-0001
In the #September edition of Dry Horizons:
➡️ A grant focuses on mitigating effects of #wildfires and #climatechange in #California.
➡️ New #water recycling program aims to help communities with supply shortages.
➡️ Potomac River drought exercise findings are now available.
Dry Horizons is a monthly roundup providing #news and #research to help you plan for drought. Read more: https://mailchi.mp/unl.edu/dry-horizons-september-2023
#climate #wildfires #AirQuality
As this visualization of smoke plume extents is provided by U.S. agencies, it doesn't show large wildfires outside the U.S. (Only satellite detections.)
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“In Yellowknife, where the skies have turned a treacherous deep orange, the Air Quality Index has soared to a shocking 55 times above the WHO guidelines.”
➡️ Repost
#climate #wildfires #Canada #photography #health #science #photo #sunset
#climate #wildfires #AirQuality
As this visualization of smoke plume extents is provided by U.S. agencies, it doesn't show large wildfires outside the U.S. (Only satellite detections.)
California Orders Bottled Water Company to Stop Drawing From Natural Springs Needed for Wildlife Habitat and Wildfire Protection #California #water #wildlife #wildfire #wildfires https://www.ecowatch.com/california-arrowhead-bottled-water-natural-springs-san-bernardino.html
@watchduty_bot #Tahoe #wildfires (prescribed burn)
Thick wildfire smoke (grey) drifting high above fog (white) in Ontario, Canada this morning 💨 #wildfires #CanadaFires #CanadaWildfires
"Federal firefighters will quit in droves if Congress doesn’t take action, union warns. With temporary pay hikes for federal wildland firefighters set to expire in the coming weeks, union officials are warning that the 15,000-member workforce could face a mass exodus if Congress fails to make the increases permanent." #firefighting #wildfires https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-25/pay-cuts-possible-exodus-of-federal-firefighters
#climate #wildfires #AirQuality
As this visualization of smoke plume extents is provided by U.S. agencies, it doesn't show large wildfires outside the U.S. (Only satellite detections.)
Canada, still burning 🇨🇦🔥
Thick smoke is drifting over Ontario and Quebec today 💨
#Canada - Smoke prevents #Yellowknife from holding welcome home celebration
> Everyone in the city of approximately 20,000 was ordered to leave in mid-August due to a nearby wildfire, and they were only allowed to return on Sept. 6 when the evacuation order was downgraded to an alert.
https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2023/09/23/smoke-prevents-yellowknife-from-holding-welcome-home-celebration/ #CanadaWildfires #wildfires
As wildfires worsen, Canada's space agency wants to become firefighters' eye in the sky
> ...the Canadian Space Agency is preparing to launch what it describes as the world's first dedicated public fire-monitoring satellite into orbit
> "Since we don't have our own wildfire satellite, we really rely on our collaboration with the European Space Agency,"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-s-space-agency-wants-to-become-firefighters-eye-in-the-sky-1.6975496 #Canada #canadawildfires #wildfires
Alternate headline - #Yellowknife Experiences Yet Another Apocalyptic Day. https://cabinradio.ca/154265/news/yellowknife/yellowknife-awakens-to-grossest-morning-in-city-history/
To call 2023 a "record year" for #Canada #wildfires is an immense understatement.
Graphic from https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-fires-map-air-quality-1.6871563
Week 211 of fasting on Fridays for the climate crisis. Week 211 of striking from working and shopping on Fridays for the climate emergency.
#degrowth #globalheating #globalboiling #heatwaves #Wildfire #wildfires #flood #floods #ClimateMigration #climatechange #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow
#ClimateJustice #ClimateJusticeNow #ClimateStrike #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Earth #environment #FridaysForFuture #FastFairForever #friday #fridays #fasting #intermittentfasting #savetheplanet #savetheearth #savetheocean #savethebees #savethetrees
No surprise: the wildfire smoke is really bad.
(And a slight eye roll at the eternal self-centeredness of the journalist pack suddenly being shocked at something that's been happening for years in the west now that it got smokey once in the northeast)
No paywall article.
@gavmor i got an alert text that it’s from oregon #wildFires, but northern california is looking rather poorly, too? #AQI
Well this sucks. The wildfire smoke from the northernmost part of California and from Oregon is hitting my area real hard totally out of the blue. I was sitting around and all of a sudden my eyes burned and throat was uncomfortable.
Then I checked #PurpleAir and realized why. This is supposed to continue for a few days. I hope that ends up being wrong. I’ve got an outdoor event coming up this week.
Didn’t notice the smoke this evening until I went near a window. Thank god for the new air purifier. These ~160/170 readings are high. #SF #SouthBay #SFBA #SFBay #SFBayArea #Smoke #Wildfires #cawx
Red Earth (2019) [4 min] by Michael Kenny | #Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIUDf84kjT0
#2D #2DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Wildfires #ClimateChange #Kangaroo #SwinburneUniversity
Wildfires are coming ... for New Jersey?
Vox explains how "climate change is expanding the list of areas at risk for the worst wildfires."
@HeavenlyPossum Reading it in France, at 34°C (the soils are dust), I can sign every sentence. I feel myself becoming more and more angry and aggressive against the inaction of well-off politicians. I just want to scream about how the #oil industry is subsidised and pampered. I feel defiance, which should be useful for #activism Creativity can be made out of anger. I can no longer stand by and watch this. ▶️ https://fightfossilfuels.net/
#climateEmergency #floods #drought #heatwave #wildfires #protest
#Disinformation about #wildfires running rampant in the US and Canada, blaming recent wildfires on "coordinated arson, lasers—and plans to develop "smart cities." " https://phys.org/news/2023-09-conspiracy-theories-falsely-link-wildfires.html
"For the billionaires and mere multimillionaires who have flocked to places like South #Florida, a five- and six-figure [#HomeInsurance] policy, while costly, won’t break the bank.
The result: an acceleration of #ClimateGentrification. Increasingly, only the affluent will be able to afford to insure themselves against the #ExtremeWeather, #floods and #wildfires on our warming planet. People of more modest means will simply be priced out, industry experts say."
#Wildfires…#Canada's worst season on record. “…Pressure is…mounting on decision-makers to become more proactive in…mitigating & preparing for…impacts of climate change. An Aug 14…ruling from… #Montana…sided with…youth who claimed that…Montana violated their right to a healthy #environment. A…case brought by 7 youth… [in] #Ontario…has… been heralded as groundbreaking…” | UVic climatologist Andrew Weaver, The Conversation https://theconversation.com/yellowknife-and-kelowna-wildfires-burn-in-what-is-already-canadas-worst-season-on-record-211817 #RightToAHealthyEnvironment
#Wildfire evacuations can cause traffic jams.
Fascinating article. No paywall.
#Wildfires #ClimateEmergency
https://heatmap.news/climate/wildfire-traffic-jam-evacuation
#Wildfires have destroyed more than a million Joshua #trees in #California 's Mojave National Preserve since 2020. Scientists launched an ambitious plan to regrow the #forest, but despite hundreds of volunteers and even a water-packing camel train, 80% of the nearly 2,000 seedlings have died.
Some are eaten by animals. Others die of thirst. The succulents struggle to survive as #ClimateChange makes their #environment hotter and dryer. And since Joshua trees only grow about 2 inches a year, even a successful program would take almost a century to restore what's been lost.
"We seem to be capable of destroying it," one park superintendent says of the ecosystem, "but we can't create something that we don't really even understand."
I recently went on Spectrum News to discuss my article about how #Russia exploited the Hawaii wildfires to push anti-#Ukraine propaganda. You can watch a clip from the interview — and read a brief explainer — here:
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/watch-breaking-down-russias-disinformation
#disinformation #climatechange #wildfires
30 minute delay between #WatchDuty notification of possible evacuations on the fire in Lower Lake, California vs. WEA. Proof of the usefulness of having a team of volunteers listening to fires... that's a 30 minute heads up. #wildfires #scanner
Calgary has been blanketed by smoke for nearly three full weeks this wildfire season, already surpassing the previous record set in 2018 and obliterating readings that were considered normal in previous decades:
#yyc #calgary #alberta #canada #wildfire #wildfires #smoke #climate #climatechange
One of the best examples of good #climateJournalism. For #journalism that makes visible the people, places and communities behind the abstract numbers of #climateDisasters. Belongs in every journalism class!
"Bracing for #disasters" produced by @thetyee and the @climatedisasterproject https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/04/03/Bracing-For-Disasters/
#journalists #storytelling #climateGrief #wildfires #floods #heatwaves
'Canada is a major oil and gas producing company'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7s-BgfcFXw
#Canada #WetSuwetEn #ClimateChange #WildFires #Fracking #Methane #TarSands #LateStageHumanity #StateCapture
Remember hearing about #wildfires in #Canada this summer? It is still happening. Each red dot on this #GIS map is an uncontrolled #wildfire
Open #GISsurfer map:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=61.035829,-103.713679&zoom=4&basemap=Canada_Toporama&overlay=CA_fire_perimeter,CA_active_fires&txtfile=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/Canada_wildland_fire.txt
The smoke plume over northern Alberta looks like a poorly drawn cartoon villain. #yeg #wildfires #wildfiresmoke
#Edmonton once again having a completely normal one ✌🏼
US government sues Southern California Edison, alleging in federal court the #BobcatFire -- one of the largest #wildfires ever in Los Angeles County -- was caused by failures of the utility and its tree maintenance contractor. https://www.audacy.com/knxnews/news/local/u-s-government-sues-socal-edison-for-2020-bobcat-fire
4 years of fasting on Fridays for the climate crisis. 4 years of striking from working and shopping on Fridays for the climate emergency.
#degrowth #globalheating #globalboiling #heatwaves #Wildfire #wildfires #flood #floods #ClimateMigration #climatechange #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow
#flyingless #drivingless #MindTheGap #UprootTheSystem #ClimateJustice #ClimateJusticeNow #ClimateStrike #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Earth #environment #FridaysForFuture #friday #fridays #fasting #intermittentfasting #savetheplanet #savetheearth #savetheocean #savethebees #savethetrees
A moment of appreciation for wildland firefighters 🔥
The critical water and food items, supplies, extra gear, and fire line tools – Pulaskis, chain saws, and fuel – add up to an average gear weight often exceeding 50 pounds. The demand on their bodies rivals that of Tour de France athletes.
#wildfires
https://theconversation.com/yellow-jerseys-of-the-fireline-a-day-fighting-wildfires-can-require-as-much-endurance-as-riding-the-tour-de-france-201079
