Vast swathes of the Arctic suffering from "unprecedented" wildfires, new satellite images show
Source: The London Economic
Disturbing satellite images have uncovered vast swathes of the Arctic suffering from unprecedented wildfires.
Pictures taken by Pierre Markuse show smoke billowing across massive areas of uninhabited and wild land in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska.
With the ice melt on the enormous Greenland icesheet commencing a month earlier than average huge areas of land have been exposed to record-breaking summer temperatures.
Mark Parrington, a senior scientist at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast, said the amount of CO2 emitted by Arctic wildfires between 1 June and 21 July 2019 is around 100 megatonnes and is approaching the entire 2017 fossil fuel CO2 emissions of Belgium.
Read more: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/vast-swathes-of-the-arctic-suffering-from-unprecedented-wildfires-new-satellite-images-show/24/07/
ffr
(22,671 posts)Because no human was around on Earth when CO2 PPM was this high previously. EVER!
htuttle
(23,738 posts)...Let's eat the Republicans first.
Everyman Jackal
(271 posts)pecosbob
(7,543 posts)and an antique guillotine I've been meaning to restore.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)WITH fires now too?!?!? Who cares about the future, destroy the planet for instant $$$ and pay later (there is no "later" .
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Gumboot
(531 posts)If we make it to 2030, it'll be a miracle.
Bayard
(22,149 posts)Wildfires on snow.....
Everyman Jackal
(271 posts)is a virus that kills only humans and has a mortality rate of 90-95%. Otherwise, humans will slowly die off and take many species with them.