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French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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Re: French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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Post by vitally3643 »

sunshine-o wrote: post #46
LtWorf wrote: post #45

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Also I can understand fires in gigantic forests in Canada or mountainous area are almost impossible to prevent but just looking at the Gironde/Bordeaux area on Google Maps it just looks like an absolute failure by the state. And this is not an earthquake, it happens every years at the same time. It is too easy to blame climate change.

Forest fires are possible to prevent most of the time. We lack the political will to do controlled burns.

And climate change is making them worse.

Re: French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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Post by stinkbeetle »

pibaker wrote: post #48
cineticdaffodil wrote: post #31

So, if you used climate credits, to build up those forrests. Do they get nil and void, if those forrests burn up?

Bold to assume that buying emission offsets actually leads to anything tangible being done.

It fills the pockets of grifters.

Re: French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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Post by morkalork »

msk-lywenn wrote: post #7
toomuchtodo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What resources would you recommend to follow this event as it continues?

It’s in French but this crowd sourced website updates quite quickly : https://feuxdeforet.fr/gironde-33/saumos-22-07-2026-4367/

Needs a smoke layer like https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

Re: French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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Post by juujian »

cineticdaffodil wrote: post #31

So, if you used climate credits, to build up those forrests. Do they get nil and void, if those forrests burn up?

Nope, read a couple stories about climate credits over the years, and this is a problem. The credits are permanent, even if the new grown forest burns down.

Re: French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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Post by Dibby053 »

For context on why this region is burning so easily: the Landes and Médoc are huge, artificial pine forests created in the 19th century under Napoleon III to drain and reclaim what was considered an inhospitable wetland, where shepherds famously walked around on stilts. Pine resin and needle litter makes it exceptionally flammable, and being an uninterrupted monoculture on flat land it lacks natural barriers to stop the fire from advancing.

Re: French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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Post by nolok »

ares623 wrote: post #55

One of the biggest lies is that these events will only happen (or will happen first) to the "global south" and only affect the "other peoples". Unfortunately for us, the Earth has no preferences and doesn't run on our schedule.

I don't know where you live or where you heard that but it is not a lie that was told in france at least. If you want a "lie", it was how far in the future that was going to happen, but that's mostly because the deniers got control of the messaging for a long time.

Re: French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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Post by bigfatkitten »

pibaker wrote: post #48
cineticdaffodil wrote: post #31

So, if you used climate credits, to build up those forrests. Do they get nil and void, if those forrests burn up?

Bold to assume that buying emission offsets actually leads to anything tangible being done.

Saving the environment with Microsoft Excel.

Re: French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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Post by tjwebbnorfolk »

j1elo wrote: post #56

Spain is also completely on fire - there's a website that collects all official information and locates every fire on a map: https://xn--incendiosespaa-2nb.es/ (in Spanish) It is disheartening to see how everything is basically in red.

spain loses ~240,000 acres to wildfire every year. this is larger than normal, but fire is normal there
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