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  1. From the Fraser Valley Current

    Bureaucracy and 'balls': Why BC's forests are still full of wildfire fuel
    BC says controlled burns can save communities; but bureaucracy and inaction has hobbled efforts to clear forests of fuel
    Author

    Tyler Olsen
    August 31, 2023

    Of all the ways to protect BC communities from increasingly furious wildfire seasons, few have been as widely endorsed as the tactical, controlled use of fire.

    #forestfires #controlledburn

  2. I'm shocked that Republicans aren't calling on the President to carpet bomb Canada with rakes.

    They should at least be lining up to do their patriotic duty and participate in covert stealth raking missions across the border.

    #environment #forestfires #Canada #MAGA #republicanstupidity

  3. @ai6yr We can see it today in the air in suburban Seattle. The air takes on a golden glow, almost like the Sun is a giant campfire rather than a ball of nuclear hell
    #wawx #seattle #smoke #forestfiresmoke #17May2023

  4. @wihtlore

    ...regions in #Europe had significantly accelerated in recent years.

    Based on a #NationalGeographic article I've just found, 80% of e.g. #Germany's forests R sick.

    Apparently not due to #AcidRain, but #ClimateChange:

    Extended periods of warm/hot weather (#heat), #droughts, #ForestFires + #BarkBeetles.

    (You can easily read the article in English, just copy & paste it into Word and select Translate Document. Also nice: Listen to Document).

    nationalgeographic.de/umwelt/2

  5. Global #WildFires #OpenBurning intensity & emissions for January 2023 in the #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service #ECMWF GFAS data confluence.ecmwf.int/display/C. Notable fires in Mexico & S America, with peak fire season in N tropical Africa. 2nd lowest January total emissions since 2003. Hotspots across W Canada during Jan related more to gas/oil extraction activities rather than fires.

    Data access ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/c

    @wildfirescience #WildlandFires #ForestFires #IncendiosForestales

  6. Global #WildFires #OpenBurning intensity & emissions for December 2022 in the #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service #ECMWF GFAS data confluence.ecmwf.int/display/C. Late season fires continuing in central S America, & fire season in N tropical Africa, but overall lowest December and annual estimated global totals in last 20 years. Downward trend follows decreasing tropical savanna fires.

    Data available from ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/c

    @wildfirescience #WildlandFires #ForestFires #IncendiosForestales

  7. Global #WildFires #OpenBurning intensity & emissions for November 2022 in the #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service #ECMWF GFAS data confluence.ecmwf.int/display/C. Late seasonal fires in western Canada and central S America but overall lowest October and Jan-Oct estimated global totals in last 20 years. Downward trend follows decreasing tropical savanna fires.

    Data available from ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/c

    @wildfirescience #WildlandFires #ForestFires #IncendiosForestales