• Varyk
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    1 year ago

    Geologists, meteorologists, what are the 20-year effects of Australia and Canada being on fire all summer every year?

    Presumably worsening each year since local and global heat records keep getting broken every year?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    OTTAWA, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Record-setting wildfires in Canada could potentially continue burning at an abnormally high rate for several more weeks, though the spread of blazes is likely to start diminishing in September, according to federal projections released on Friday.

    Forest fires have engulfed parts of nearly all 13 Canadian provinces and territories this year, forcing home evacuations, disrupting energy production, and drawing in federal as well as international firefighting resources.

    “This summer has turned into a challenging marathon,” Canadian Forest Service official Michael Norton told a media briefing on Friday.

    “Our most recent projections indicate the potential for higher-than-normal fire activity remains across much of Canada in August and September,” Norton said.

    Norton said the simultaneous flaring up of blazes across the country was “virtually unheard of” and largely due to drought conditions that continue to intensify in some areas and will contribute to ongoing fire activity through late summer.

    The EU’s Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service estimated last week that Canadian wildfires have released 290 million metric tons of carbon, over 25% of the global total for 2023 to date, and emissions are set to rise as hundreds of flames rage on.


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