#firestorms — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #firestorms, aggregated by home.social.
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Climate collapse isn’t coming — it’s already here, and Australia is burning faster than ever. #australia #extremeweather #firestorms #climatetippingpoint #climatechange #globalwarming #climateemergency #environment #community
https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/the-first-heat-of-the-year-and-we-are-already-breaking-records,20625 -
Australia claimed all of the top 15 hottest spots in the world over the 24 hours to 8am on Thursday. #australia #extremeweather #firestorms #climatetippingpoint #climatechange #globalwarming #climateemergency #environment #community https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/heatwave-australia-temperatures/6zd0omzpq
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2025 is the third hottest year on record, closely behind 2024 and 2023. The trajectory has been clear for decades. #extremeweather #firestorms #climatetippingpoint #climatechange #globalwarming #climateemergency #environment #community #australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-14/climate-change-in-2025-in-pictures-and-graphs/106221436 -
Fires in the Petrocene
A review of the book Fire Weather by @johnvaillant.bsky.social
BioScience: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf007
PDF: https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/02/08/fires-in-the-petrocene/
free link: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf007/8005696?guestAccessKey=f96d3b25-a865-4a13-8c75-778741f7531b&login=falseThe book focuses on the 2016 Fort McMurray #wildfire (Alberta) to understand #firestorms in a warming world
En español: El Tiempo del Fuego, ed @capitanswing.bsky.social
#book #fire #incendio #capitanswing @wildfirescience @ecology @climate @nature #GlobalWarming
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The Case for Letting Malibu Burn
Bushfires and sprawl: Man-made catastrophes and cultural narrativesThe lethal mixture of home ownership and the bush: Neighborhoods on fire.
"Since 1993. almost half of California’s new homes have been built in fire hazard areas...Commercial greed over common sense and the social good."The aristocratisation of the coast
"In a feverish buying and selling of land, the coast has become utterly transformed and unrecognizable. Each succeeding house, bigger and grander, takes the view of its neighbors in a kind of unbridled competition.… Once lost, paradise can never be regained.… Developers have bulldozed the Santa Monicas beyond recovery."
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Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: The Case for Letting Malibu Burn. 1998
https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/Ecology of Fear: Mike Davis’ history of LA and natural disaster is re-read whenever fire rages in California >>
https://theconversation.com/ecology-of-fear-mike-davis-history-of-la-and-natural-disaster-is-re-read-whenever-fire-rages-in-california-247101
#bushfires #fires #firestorms #sprawl #housing #suburbs #mansions #OverDevelopment #coast #NSW #destruction #disasters #gridlocked #roads #highways #floods #landslides #WUI #FossilFuels #Biodiversity #Holocene #folly -
PBS: Warming climate created ‘perfect storm’ for catastrophic fires, NASA researcher says
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#LA Times drops paywall for #wildfire coverage. 2 dead and more than 1,000 homes, businesses, other buildings destroyed in L.A. County #fires. More than 1,000 homes, businesses and other buildings have burned and at least two people are dead in wildfires burning across L.A. County, making this one of the most destructive #firestorms to hit the region in memory. https://www.latimes.com/california/live/pacific-palisades-fire-updates-los-angeles
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Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you — and almost everyone else.
October 20, 2022
By François Diaz-Maurin"Since Russia’s war in Ukraine started, President #Putin and other Russian officials have made repeated nuclear threats, in an apparent attempt to deter Western countries from any direct military intervention. If Russia were to ever start—voluntarily or accidentally—nuclear war with the United States and other NATO countries, the number of devastating nuclear explosions involved in a full exchange could waft more than 150 Tg of soot into the stratosphere, leading to a nuclear winter that would disrupt virtually all forms of life on Earth over several decades.
"Stratospheric soot injections associated with different nuclear war scenarios would lead to a wide variety of major climatic and biogeochemical changes, including transformations of the atmosphere, oceans, and land. Such global climate changes will be more long-lasting than previously thought because models of the 1980s did not adequately represent the stratospheric plume rise. It is now understood that soot from nuclear #firestorms would rise much higher into the stratosphere than once imagined, where soot removal mechanisms in the form of 'black rains' are slow. Once the smoke is heated by sunlight it can self-loft to altitudes as high as 80 kilometers (50 miles), penetrating the mesosphere."
#NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWar #BlackRains #Extinction #NuclearWinter
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Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you — and almost everyone else.
October 20, 2022
By François Diaz-Maurin"Since Russia’s war in Ukraine started, President #Putin and other Russian officials have made repeated nuclear threats, in an apparent attempt to deter Western countries from any direct military intervention. If Russia were to ever start—voluntarily or accidentally—nuclear war with the United States and other NATO countries, the number of devastating nuclear explosions involved in a full exchange could waft more than 150 Tg of soot into the stratosphere, leading to a nuclear winter that would disrupt virtually all forms of life on Earth over several decades.
"Stratospheric soot injections associated with different nuclear war scenarios would lead to a wide variety of major climatic and biogeochemical changes, including transformations of the atmosphere, oceans, and land. Such global climate changes will be more long-lasting than previously thought because models of the 1980s did not adequately represent the stratospheric plume rise. It is now understood that soot from nuclear #firestorms would rise much higher into the stratosphere than once imagined, where soot removal mechanisms in the form of 'black rains' are slow. Once the smoke is heated by sunlight it can self-loft to altitudes as high as 80 kilometers (50 miles), penetrating the mesosphere."
#NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWar #BlackRains #Extinction #NuclearWinter
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Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you — and almost everyone else.
October 20, 2022
By François Diaz-Maurin"Since Russia’s war in Ukraine started, President #Putin and other Russian officials have made repeated nuclear threats, in an apparent attempt to deter Western countries from any direct military intervention. If Russia were to ever start—voluntarily or accidentally—nuclear war with the United States and other NATO countries, the number of devastating nuclear explosions involved in a full exchange could waft more than 150 Tg of soot into the stratosphere, leading to a nuclear winter that would disrupt virtually all forms of life on Earth over several decades.
"Stratospheric soot injections associated with different nuclear war scenarios would lead to a wide variety of major climatic and biogeochemical changes, including transformations of the atmosphere, oceans, and land. Such global climate changes will be more long-lasting than previously thought because models of the 1980s did not adequately represent the stratospheric plume rise. It is now understood that soot from nuclear #firestorms would rise much higher into the stratosphere than once imagined, where soot removal mechanisms in the form of 'black rains' are slow. Once the smoke is heated by sunlight it can self-loft to altitudes as high as 80 kilometers (50 miles), penetrating the mesosphere."
#NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWar #BlackRains #Extinction #NuclearWinter
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What I notice most on my regular treks to Melbourne along the Princes Highway and back are the long eerie stretches of dead trees that never recovered from the 2019/2020 fire storms. They flank the road and stretch into the distance and in many places a green understory has struggled to grow back. It may all soon burn again... #Australia #BushfireCrisis #Firestorms #climateemergency #ClimateCrisis
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/australia-facing-one-of-hottest-summers-on-record-bom/104464014?sf275032926=1 -
What I notice most on my regular treks to Melbourne along the Princes Highway and back are the long eerie stretches of dead trees that never recovered from the 2019/2020 fire storms. They flank the road and stretch into the distance and in many places a green understory has struggled to grow back. It may all soon burn again... #Australia #BushfireCrisis #Firestorms #climateemergency #ClimateCrisis
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/australia-facing-one-of-hottest-summers-on-record-bom/104464014?sf275032926=1 -
What I notice most on my regular treks to Melbourne along the Princes Highway and back are the long eerie stretches of dead trees that never recovered from the 2019/2020 fire storms. They flank the road and stretch into the distance and in many places a green understory has struggled to grow back. It may all soon burn again... #Australia #BushfireCrisis #Firestorms #climateemergency #ClimateCrisis
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/australia-facing-one-of-hottest-summers-on-record-bom/104464014?sf275032926=1 -
What I notice most on my regular treks to Melbourne along the Princes Highway and back are the long eerie stretches of dead trees that never recovered from the 2019/2020 fire storms. They flank the road and stretch into the distance and in many places a green understory has struggled to grow back. It may all soon burn again... #Australia #BushfireCrisis #Firestorms #climateemergency #ClimateCrisis
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/australia-facing-one-of-hottest-summers-on-record-bom/104464014?sf275032926=1 -
What I notice most on my regular treks to Melbourne along the Princes Highway and back are the long eerie stretches of dead trees that never recovered from the 2019/2020 fire storms. They flank the road and stretch into the distance and in many places a green understory has struggled to grow back. It may all soon burn again... #Australia #BushfireCrisis #Firestorms #climateemergency #ClimateCrisis
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/australia-facing-one-of-hottest-summers-on-record-bom/104464014?sf275032926=1