It's . . . February . . .
Alberta declares an early start to wildfire season
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…
John Vaillant
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John Vaillant
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The Golden Spruce, The Tiger, The Jaguar's Children, FIRE WEATHER: @PulitzerPrizes @BGPrize @nationalbook 10 Best Books: @nytimes
Joined June 2009
- "Clima incognita" - the unknown climate - will surprise us for the rest of our lives.Within 10 days #Delhi has gone from record heat waves of 50C and acute water shortages to record urban flooding. The new climate will have incredible weather swings never witnessed before. Existing Infrastructure hasn't been built or designed for whats coming.
00:00 - We should note this moment: the beginning of a new era of civilizational retreat, contraction, and consolidation.🌀🇲🇽 "Acapulco has been destroyed" For a second time after just 11 months.
- Holy smokes. Still wrapping my head around this. pulitzer.org/finalists/john… @PulitzerPrizes @AAKnopf
- Cause you won't hear it from Canadian press:
- For all you folks freezing your butts off tonight:Your periodic reminder that less ice at the Arctic is consistent with a weaker jet stream that allows cold air to drift down into the Great Plains. The frigid temps you're experiencing happen BECAUSE of a warming planet, not in spite of it.
- As #Canada -literally- burns, the CEO of the country's biggest #CO2 emitter flips us the bird: “I play to win. We're in the business to make money and as much of it as possible." cbc.ca/news/canada/ca… #NWTwildfires #nwtfires #oilandgas #greed @CabinRadio @s_guilbeault #canpoli
- This can be replicated across the Northern Hemisphere.Beavers banished to a remote Idaho valley have transformed the landscape into a lush wetland and a haven against fire and drought, satellite images show. Read more @YaleE360: bit.ly/3Y5s8nU
- In Ojibwe our word for drum is odewegan. Also translates to the sound of our heart. @WabKinew is not only a Premier he’s also a lead singer at the big drum.
00:00 - The petroleum industry is killing us, and they do not care.What’s happening in Guatemala right now is unbelievable. The amount of plastic we captured… we’ve never seen anything like this before. We’ve been scooping day and night for over a week and we’re still not done extracting it all.
00:00 - It's not just firefighters. There are air temp thresholds beyond which water bombers and helis cannot fly, and we are approaching them. Cooling our planet is in =everyone's= interest.Excessive heat out west is making it extremely difficult for firefighters battling wildfires throughout California. One of the largest, the Lake Fire in Santa Barbara county, has grown to more than 12 thousand acres. #SundayTODAY
00:00 - In Fire Weather, I suggested the possibility of "a potentially winter-less scenario in which fire weather is the only weather, and 'fire season' never ends." @CBC reports more than 100 "zombie fires" currently burning in British Columbia.
