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Wildfires tear across drought-stricken parts of PeruLess rain due to climate change and last year's El Nino weather pattern have made the Amazon drier than usual, scientists have said
LIMA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Wildfires have torn through more than 22,000 hectares (54,363 acres) of forest, protected areas and farmland in drought-stricken parts of Peru as the Andean country suffers one of its driest periods in years, authorities said on Thursday.
The spate of wildfires in the past week were likely started by accident after peasant farmers burned fields to prepare them for planting, said Edgar Ortega with Peru's Civil Defense Institute.
Strong winds fanned the flames that quickly crossed the Andean regions of Cajamarca and Lambayeque in northern Peru, which are experiencing prolonged droughts, Ortega said.
And as Nature magazine explained in 2012, “climate attribution” — the attempt to link singular weather events to manmade global warming — “rests on a comparison of the probability of an observed weather event in the real world with that of the ‘same’ event in a hypothetical world without global warming.” As critics have observed, such attribution claims “are unjustifiably speculative, basically unverifiable and better not made at all.”Wildfires tear across drought-stricken parts of Peru
Wildfires tear across drought-stricken parts of PeruLess rain due to climate change and last year's El Nino weather pattern have made the Amazon drier than usual, scientists have said
LIMA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Wildfires have torn through more than 22,000 hectares (54,363 acres) of forest, protected areas and farmland in drought-stricken parts of Peru as the Andean country suffers one of its driest periods in years, authorities said on Thursday.
The spate of wildfires in the past week were likely started by accident after peasant farmers burned fields to prepare them for planting, said Edgar Ortega with Peru's Civil Defense Institute.
Strong winds fanned the flames that quickly crossed the Andean regions of Cajamarca and Lambayeque in northern Peru, which are experiencing prolonged droughts, Ortega said.
More drought induced fires.
And in the meantime, Gatlinburg, Tennessee is on fire. Whole town evacuated, as well as Pigeon Forge.
http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2016/11/29/30-gatlinburg-structures-fire-tema/94584554/
GATLINBURG — A historic wildfire continued to sweep through Gatlinburg on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and destroying hundreds of homes and business. Despite rain and scores of firefighters battling the blaze, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency saw "little hope" of any relief soon.
More than 14,000 people had been evacuated from Gatlinburg alone, with hundreds of them seeking refuge in emergency shelters.
The Sevier County Emergency Management Agency indicated that the Westgate Resorts, made up of more than 100 buildings, had been destroyed, and Black Bear Falls was believed to have lost every cabin.
The agency also said that Ober Gatlinburg had been destroyed, but the amusement park and ski resort posted to its Facebook page just after 9 a.m. that "our property is okay."
Hillbilly Golf, major hotels, a good portion of Regan Drive and countless other businesses and homeswere destroyed in the blaze that had firefighters working throughout the night.
And this is not August, it is late November, almost December.
And you wonder why no one takes you girls serious.And in the meantime, Gatlinburg, Tennessee is on fire. Whole town evacuated, as well as Pigeon Forge.
Three dead in Sevier wildfire
GATLINBURG — A historic wildfire continued to sweep through Gatlinburg on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and destroying hundreds of homes and business. Despite rain and scores of firefighters battling the blaze, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency saw "little hope" of any relief soon.
More than 14,000 people had been evacuated from Gatlinburg alone, with hundreds of them seeking refuge in emergency shelters.
The Sevier County Emergency Management Agency indicated that the Westgate Resorts, made up of more than 100 buildings, had been destroyed, and Black Bear Falls was believed to have lost every cabin.
The agency also said that Ober Gatlinburg had been destroyed, but the amusement park and ski resort posted to its Facebook page just after 9 a.m. that "our property is okay."
Hillbilly Golf, major hotels, a good portion of Regan Drive and countless other businesses and homeswere destroyed in the blaze that had firefighters working throughout the night.
And this is not August, it is late November, almost December.
Yep... looks pretty normal to me.LOL Forest fires on the East Coast in November and December. Just the usual folks, keep moving, nothing to look at.
