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Doyle Rice, USA TODAY 10:40 a.m. EDT July 24, 2015
Wildfires have burned a phenomenal 5.5 million acres across the U.S. so far this year, an area equal to the size of New Jersey.
This is the second-highest total in at least the past 25 years, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Only 2011, which saw 5.8 million acres charred as of July 23 of that year, had more. On average, at this point in the year, 3.5 million acres would have burned.
As of Thursday afternoon, 18 wildfires were burning in seven states, mostly in the West. This includes one in California's wine country that has forced numerous evacuations and is being fought by hundreds of firefighters, CALFIRE, the state's firefighting agency, reported. Another one is charring Glacier National Park in Montana.
Scorched earth: U.S. wildfires near record level
Scorched earth U.S. wildfires near record level
(Photo: David Pardo, AP)
Wildfires have burned a phenomenal 5.5 million acres across the U.S. so far this year, an area equal to the size of New Jersey.
This is the second-highest total in at least the past 25 years, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Only 2011, which saw 5.8 million acres charred as of July 23 of that year, had more. On average, at this point in the year, 3.5 million acres would have burned.
As of Thursday afternoon, 18 wildfires were burning in seven states, mostly in the West. This includes one in California's wine country that has forced numerous evacuations and is being fought by hundreds of firefighters, CALFIRE, the state's firefighting agency, reported. Another one is charring Glacier National Park in Montana.
Climate change isn't real, hahaha!!!!
Massive wildfires in:
Canada
Spain
Russia - Manchuria
South America
China
Scorched earth: U.S. wildfires near record level
Scorched earth U.S. wildfires near record level
(Photo: David Pardo, AP)
Wildfires have burned a phenomenal 5.5 million acres across the U.S. so far this year, an area equal to the size of New Jersey.
This is the second-highest total in at least the past 25 years, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Only 2011, which saw 5.8 million acres charred as of July 23 of that year, had more. On average, at this point in the year, 3.5 million acres would have burned.
As of Thursday afternoon, 18 wildfires were burning in seven states, mostly in the West. This includes one in California's wine country that has forced numerous evacuations and is being fought by hundreds of firefighters, CALFIRE, the state's firefighting agency, reported. Another one is charring Glacier National Park in Montana.
Climate change isn't real, hahaha!!!!
Scorched earth: U.S. wildfires near record level
Scorched earth U.S. wildfires near record level
(Photo: David Pardo, AP)
Wildfires have burned a phenomenal 5.5 million acres across the U.S. so far this year, an area equal to the size of New Jersey.
This is the second-highest total in at least the past 25 years, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Only 2011, which saw 5.8 million acres charred as of July 23 of that year, had more. On average, at this point in the year, 3.5 million acres would have burned.
As of Thursday afternoon, 18 wildfires were burning in seven states, mostly in the West. This includes one in California's wine country that has forced numerous evacuations and is being fought by hundreds of firefighters, CALFIRE, the state's firefighting agency, reported. Another one is charring Glacier National Park in Montana.
Climate change isn't real, hahaha!!!!
I thought the oceans were absorbing 90% of the warming? Can't you pick a story and stick with it?
Want to see Matthew shut the fuck up? Watch this.
Matty, how much must we lower CO2 to stop forest fires? What does all the money we wasted in Climate research tell us about that?
The warming just makes some "areas" more perfect for massive fires as these areas have negative anomalies in rainfall/snowfall that dry up the grass, plants and trees ontop of massive heat waves. This does increase the likelihood of forest fires on the scale we're seeing.Problem is that a lot of wasted energy, which is escapes into the sky. How could utilize the losses?Scorched earth: U.S. wildfires near record level
Scorched earth U.S. wildfires near record level
(Photo: David Pardo, AP)
Wildfires have burned a phenomenal 5.5 million acres across the U.S. so far this year, an area equal to the size of New Jersey.
This is the second-highest total in at least the past 25 years, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Only 2011, which saw 5.8 million acres charred as of July 23 of that year, had more. On average, at this point in the year, 3.5 million acres would have burned.
As of Thursday afternoon, 18 wildfires were burning in seven states, mostly in the West. This includes one in California's wine country that has forced numerous evacuations and is being fought by hundreds of firefighters, CALFIRE, the state's firefighting agency, reported. Another one is charring Glacier National Park in Montana.
Climate change isn't real, hahaha!!!!
I thought the oceans were absorbing 90% of the warming? Can't you pick a story and stick with it?
Want to see Matthew shut the fuck up? Watch this.
Matty, how much must we lower CO2 to stop forest fires? What does all the money we wasted in Climate research tell us about that?
Problem is that a lot of wasted energy, which is escapes into the sky. How could utilize the losses?Scorched earth: U.S. wildfires near record level
Scorched earth U.S. wildfires near record level
(Photo: David Pardo, AP)
Wildfires have burned a phenomenal 5.5 million acres across the U.S. so far this year, an area equal to the size of New Jersey.
This is the second-highest total in at least the past 25 years, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Only 2011, which saw 5.8 million acres charred as of July 23 of that year, had more. On average, at this point in the year, 3.5 million acres would have burned.
As of Thursday afternoon, 18 wildfires were burning in seven states, mostly in the West. This includes one in California's wine country that has forced numerous evacuations and is being fought by hundreds of firefighters, CALFIRE, the state's firefighting agency, reported. Another one is charring Glacier National Park in Montana.
Climate change isn't real, hahaha!!!!
I thought the oceans were absorbing 90% of the warming? Can't you pick a story and stick with it?
Want to see Matthew shut the fuck up? Watch this.
Matty, how much must we lower CO2 to stop forest fires? What does all the money we wasted in Climate research tell us about that?
Sorry, i have bad English, but I hope you understand what I mean.
The fire is doing great thermal energy useless, in addition wood is raw material going for useless, and leave it behind just the dirt is. The more fortunate cases, if people cut down the trees and use the wood for their own purposes.
Problem is that a lot of wasted energy, which is escapes into the sky. How could utilize the losses?Scorched earth: U.S. wildfires near record level
Scorched earth U.S. wildfires near record level
(Photo: David Pardo, AP)
Wildfires have burned a phenomenal 5.5 million acres across the U.S. so far this year, an area equal to the size of New Jersey.
This is the second-highest total in at least the past 25 years, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Only 2011, which saw 5.8 million acres charred as of July 23 of that year, had more. On average, at this point in the year, 3.5 million acres would have burned.
As of Thursday afternoon, 18 wildfires were burning in seven states, mostly in the West. This includes one in California's wine country that has forced numerous evacuations and is being fought by hundreds of firefighters, CALFIRE, the state's firefighting agency, reported. Another one is charring Glacier National Park in Montana.
Climate change isn't real, hahaha!!!!
I thought the oceans were absorbing 90% of the warming? Can't you pick a story and stick with it?
Want to see Matthew shut the fuck up? Watch this.
Matty, how much must we lower CO2 to stop forest fires? What does all the money we wasted in Climate research tell us about that?
Sorry, i have bad English, but I hope you understand what I mean.
The fire is doing great thermal energy useless, in addition wood is raw material going for useless, and leave it behind just the dirt is. The more fortunate cases, if people cut down the trees and use the wood for their own purposes.
I know you are trying very hard to get your thoughts across and I commend you for it.
Wildfires are actually good for the environment!
They clear out underbrush that takes up otherwise needed rainfall. They kill weak and diseased trees, leaving healthy one to get a fresh restart. The ashes contain many nutrients that return to the earth where they provide for new growth.\
As for animals, the sick and weak perish while the healthy easily escape.
The only ones harmed are the ignorant humans who build in areas that should be left wild.
Blaming global warming for forest fires is OR blaming forest fires for global warming is, like the old question of which came first, the egg or the chick?Blaming global warming for forest fires is like blaming the Moon for a blackout
The fire known as Erskine, about 110 miles (180 km) north of Los Angeles, smoldered over a wide area on Sunday after melting steel and reducing homes to ash when it was an intense conflagration on Thursday and Friday. The Erskine fire is 10 percent contained after ripping through 36,810 acres - or nearly 60 square miles - the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), said on Sunday. California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Kern County due to the fire damage. In addition to the 200 destroyed structures, 75 homes have been damaged. "Two fatalities have been confirmed. Additional fatalities are possible due to the extreme fire behavior during the initial hours of the incident," the Kern County Fire Department said in a statement on Sunday morning. Investigators were studying a third set of charred remains to determine whether they were human, officials said.
Visalia firefighters extinguish hot spots at a residence leveled by the Erskine Fire in South Lake, California
More than 1,700 firefighters were working on the fire at the southern end of the Sierra Nevada range. Hundreds of people from more than 10 communities were evacuated as Erskine spread rapidly on Thursday and Friday as winds drove it south and east from the Lake Isabella reservoir. "I got out just as the flames were at my back fence," said Terralyn Lehman, who is staying at a campground with her mother and her dog after their home in South Lake was destroyed. She and her mother were awoken by the sound of a propane tank exploding. Lehman said her mother told her "'grab your dog and go.' So I did."
A firetruck drives through a neighborhood decimated by the Erskine Fire in South Lake, California
Crews worked in steep, rugged terrain, fighting flames fueled by hot, rainless weather and brush, grass and chaparral left bone dry by a five-year drought. Helicopters and air tankers were also in action. By Sunday morning, firefighters were optimistic they had brought some of the eastern edges of the fire under control. "It's looking really good," Joe Reyes, operations section chief for the team fighting the fire, told reporters at a briefing. Fire officials told people at a community meeting that was transmitted over the internet on Saturday that they hoped to let people back to fire-hit areas on Sunday.
Firefighters start to get deadly California blaze under control
Lighter winds are helping firefighters make gains on a voracious and deadly wildfire in central California that has burned 150 homes and claimed two lives.
The toll might rise.
Firefighters might have found human remains on Saturday when they began going through neighborhoods to count houses and mobile homes incinerated by the blaze. In an unrecognizable mobile home, they found what appears to be a set of human remains, but because they were so badly burned, forensic investigators would have to determine whether they belonged to a person or animal, Kern County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ray Pruitt said. The tally of burned homes rose from 80. Entire blocks were reduced to rubble and at least 2,500 homes remained threatened.
Wildfires leave mobile homes devastated in South Lake, California
The winds that drove the fire through small southern Sierra Nevada communities eased by late afternoon, helping firefighters contain 10 percent of the blaze. “Our crews are feeling pretty good,” said Joe Reyes, an operations chief for the fire. “If the winds does not act up drastically, we are hoping to make headway in the next 24 hours.” About 1,700 firefighters battled the flames. California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency, freeing up money and resources to fight the fire and to clean up in the aftermath. The Federal Emergency Management Agency also authorized the use of funds for firefighting efforts, fire officials said.
Since it began on Thursday last week, the fire has swept through 14,896 hectares of parched brush and timber. It moved so quickly that some residents barely had time to escape — and two did not. An elderly couple were apparently overcome by smoke as they tried to flee, county Sheriff Donny Youngblood said. Their bodies were found on Friday, but their names have not been released. Allen Montgomery, 40, who lives across the street from the couple, said he did not know their names, but understood that the woman was bedridden. He said their house vanished in the smoke when he fled his home on Thursday. “There was so much smoke, you could barely see it,” Montgomery said. He said he saw the man’s body about 6m from the house when he came back on Friday.
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Massive wildfires like we saw in Oregon and Washington are not good for the environment at all. They destroy the environment. Soil erosion is much higher afterwards, and it takes a generation or better for the forest to begin to regrow to what it once was. Understory burning is good, crown fires are not, especially in evergreen forests.Problem is that a lot of wasted energy, which is escapes into the sky. How could utilize the losses?Scorched earth: U.S. wildfires near record level
Scorched earth U.S. wildfires near record level
(Photo: David Pardo, AP)
Wildfires have burned a phenomenal 5.5 million acres across the U.S. so far this year, an area equal to the size of New Jersey.
This is the second-highest total in at least the past 25 years, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Only 2011, which saw 5.8 million acres charred as of July 23 of that year, had more. On average, at this point in the year, 3.5 million acres would have burned.
As of Thursday afternoon, 18 wildfires were burning in seven states, mostly in the West. This includes one in California's wine country that has forced numerous evacuations and is being fought by hundreds of firefighters, CALFIRE, the state's firefighting agency, reported. Another one is charring Glacier National Park in Montana.
Climate change isn't real, hahaha!!!!
I thought the oceans were absorbing 90% of the warming? Can't you pick a story and stick with it?
Want to see Matthew shut the fuck up? Watch this.
Matty, how much must we lower CO2 to stop forest fires? What does all the money we wasted in Climate research tell us about that?
Sorry, i have bad English, but I hope you understand what I mean.
The fire is doing great thermal energy useless, in addition wood is raw material going for useless, and leave it behind just the dirt is. The more fortunate cases, if people cut down the trees and use the wood for their own purposes.
I know you are trying very hard to get your thoughts across and I commend you for it.
Wildfires are actually good for the environment!
They clear out underbrush that takes up otherwise needed rainfall. They kill weak and diseased trees, leaving healthy one to get a fresh restart. The ashes contain many nutrients that return to the earth where they provide for new growth.\
As for animals, the sick and weak perish while the healthy easily escape.
The only ones harmed are the ignorant humans who build in areas that should be left wild.
Too Funny;Here is what is making our present wildfires so dangerous. First, winter starts later, and ends sooner. So there is a longer period in which there is no snow on the ground, and the forest is dry. This has changed the timing of the moth and bug hatches, and they occur earlier, when the birds have not yet come back. So we have forests with many more bug killed trees. And many more trees already stressed from the damage by insects, so that additional heat stress kills them. We are seeing this in all the forests in the west, except those in the coastal mountains.
So, we get abnormally dry and hot weather, with a lot of bug killed and damaged trees, and what should be a ground fire, ends up a crown fire. Plus, we had abnormal winds in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington last year, which created firestorms that endangered several towns, and only heroic efforts on the parts of the firefighters saved them.
