'The new reality'? Canadian wildfires become the global face of unfolding ecological disaster

[marmar]

( Toronto Star) If Canada were a colour, it would be orange.

The orange flames of the burning trees, from one end of this country to the other, pushing air quality levels in Toronto, across Ontario and elsewhere to their most hazardous levels.

The orange haze that this country’s wildfires have cast upon New York’s Empire State Building and other world-famous landmarks.

The haunting images of Canada’s flaming tinder leaving its mark on America have effectively captured the vast power of nature’s wrath, and have become the global face of an unfolding ecological and humanitarian disaster in this country.

It is a disaster that has burned nearly four million hectares of land so far this year, and which could see Canada on track to record its most damaging wildfire season since 1995 — outstripping the British Columbia fires of 2021 and the Northwest Territories blazes of 2014.

And it’s unclear when the smoke will dissipate, with Toronto’s air quality health index expected to hover at levels 8 and 9, considered “high risk,” through Thursday, and smoke from hundreds of wildfires continuing to cause air quality warnings throughout Canada’s most populated corridor. ........(more)

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/06/07/the-new-reality-canadian-wildfires-become-the-global-face-of-unfolding-ecological-disaster.html

[roamer65]

1. Welcome to Hothouse Earth.

It only going to get worse from here, folks.

[Deuxcents]

2. I believe you're right. We were warned a long time ago and still..

We have those who don’t/won’t get it

[roamer65]

4. 523 ppm CO2e last year and rising.

After all this burning, would not surprise if we get to 530 ppm CO2e this year.

https://gml.noaa.gov/aggi/#:~:text=In%20terms%20of%20CO2,amount%20and%20rate%20of%20increase.

[2naSalit]

6. Out in the western states...

We've been seeing this for a very long time. Nobody of consequence seemed to figure out it would happen in the east eventually. If you have trees and vegetation, it's gonna burn in the next few years.

I have empathy for those are experiencing this for the first time, I know exactly what it's like. N95 masks are really a good idea during this event.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. It's gonna happen here in Central Maine.

1000s of acres with dead wood fuel ready to burn. A matter of time, I am removing trees within 100 ft of my house.

[roamer65]

5. Just the right dryness and *poof*.

Up it will go, sadly.

[2naSalit]

7. Yeah, it's going to get worse.

It's good that you are working to protect your home, too many blow it off until it's too late. At least that's what some of them do out here.