Canada’s response to the extreme weather threat is being upended as the traditional epicentre of the blazes shifts as the climate warms

Pray for rain

Ahh yes, ranks up there with hope as far as effective actions go.

We had fire everywhere. We had evacuations everywhere. We had smoke at a scale that was remarkable,” said Paul Kovacs, the executive director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction at Western University. “And so for the first time, we had a different thought about wildfires as a country. With all of the smoke, it became a global conversation. This year is repeating all of that. This is a national issue. This can show up anywhere.”

I thought that was what the COPs were about,.the last 30 of them.have been nothing but “conversations”, as will all the rest.

  • eleitl@lemmy.zipM
    3·
    18 days ago

    All the world’s taigas are going to burn down. And some of the tropical forests like the Amazonas.

    With some luck, there will be succession ecosystems. With some very bad luck it will get too hot for forests in the tropics, which locks in millions of years of high CO2 regime.

    • fake_meows@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      18 days ago

      On some of these northern boreal fires, the experience is that the fire apparently “goes out” when winter snows come along, but then the following spring the fire returns as a zombie fire. It has been smouldering underground in the peat soils.