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Is Global Warming A Significant Contributor to Washington State Wildfires, Now or in the Future?
Is Global Warming A Significant Contributor to Washington State Wildfires, Now or in the Future? During the past several summers there have been major wildfires in Washington State producing a lot of smoke. And many people have been asking an important question: To what degree is anthropogenic global warming contributing to Washington State wildfires? […]
The Fires This Time
The Fires This Time Photo Source Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington | CC BY 2.0 This is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives […]
10 Haunting Photos As California’s Largest Wildfire Ever Spirals Out Of Control
10 Haunting Photos As California’s Largest Wildfire Ever Spirals Out Of Control On Monday, the twin fires being treated as one incident north of San Francisco became the largest wildfire in state history, destroying 443 square miles (1,148 square kilometers), nearly the size of the city of Los Angeles and 45% greater than New York […]
CA Wildfire Surges 25% Overnight As Exhausted Firefighters Battle On
CA Wildfire Surges 25% Overnight As Exhausted Firefighters Battle On A rapidly growing wildfire that has forced thousands to evacuate in Northern California surged overnight into Saturday – growing over 25% in size according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). The “Mendocino Complex Fire” which consists of two fires had […]
What Reporting Looks Like at the End of the World
What Reporting Looks Like at the End of the World Photo source Neville Wootton | CC BY 2.0 This summer has seen another spate of deadly wildfires, from Oregon to Sweden to Greece. The Greek fires encapsulated a popular beach resort killing scores of trapped tourists and pensioners on holiday. Many were forced into the […]
We Are Seeing Heat And Drought In The Southwest United States Like We Haven’t Seen Since The Dust Bowl Of The 1930s
We Are Seeing Heat And Drought In The Southwest United States Like We Haven’t Seen Since The Dust Bowl Of The 1930s Despite all of the other crazy news that is happening all around the world, the top headlines on Drudge on Monday evening were all about the record heatwave that is currently pummeling the […]
Waiting for the Debris Flows
Waiting for the Debris Flows In J.M. Coetzee’s 1980 novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, his characters sit around in an isolated colonial fort in a nameless desert country, awaiting their destiny – an invasion of the barbarians. The novel concerns its characters’ slow realization of their complicity, as agents of the Empire, in their fate. Something […]
What we learned about the climate system in 2017 that should send shivers down the spines of policy makers
What we learned about the climate system in 2017 that should send shivers down the spines of policy makers Much of what happened in 2017 was predictable: news of climate extremes became, how can I put it … almost the norm. There was record-breaking heat on several continents, California’s biggest wildfire (extraordinarily in the middle […]
“It Looks Like A War Zone” – Californians Describe Thomas Fire’s Devastation
“It Looks Like A War Zone” – Californians Describe Thomas Fire’s Devastation Now the third-largest wildfire in California history, the Thomas Fire has blazed through Ventura and Santa Barbara counties since it exploded into existence two weeks ago under mysterious circumstances. With Cal Fire ordering thousands more people in Santa Barbara to evacuate as dry […]
100,000 Still Stranded Amid California Fires; Giant Thomas Fire Only 20% Contained
100,000 Still Stranded Amid California Fires; Giant Thomas Fire Only 20% Contained In an unexpected run of good fortune, a shift in the powerful winds that have fanned the SoCal wildfires over the past week and a half has pushed the Thomas Fire – the largest of the six uncontained blazes – away from nearby […]
The SoCal Wildfires Are Now Larger Than New York City And Boston Combined
The SoCal Wildfires Are Now Larger Than New York City And Boston Combined It’s been nearly a week since the first stirrings of the wildfires ripping across Southern California sprang to life, and firefighters are still struggling to contain the blazes. The two largest and most destructive fires are growing despite firefighters’ best efforts at […]
The Burning Earth Bears Witness in California
The Burning Earth Bears Witness in California Photo by Glenn Beltz | CC by 2.0 Watching the first ten minutes of the “Public” (Petroleum and/or Pentagon?) Broadcasting System (“P”BS)’s NewsHour two nights ago, I was overcome by a sense of the surreal. The first news item was the Insane Clown President’s (ICP) idiotic (if base-pleasing) […]
Hurricane-Force Winds Fan SoCal Wildfires As 200,000 Residents Flee Their Homes
Hurricane-Force Winds Fan SoCal Wildfires As 200,000 Residents Flee Their Homes At least four devastating wildfires continued to ravage Southern California from Ventura County south to Los Angeles, as the stifling smoke and flames drove tens of thousands of people living in the Los Angeles area from their homes in an eerie replay of the […]
150,000 Flee Los Angeles As Wildfires Rage – “We’ll Be Fighting This All Week”
150,000 Flee Los Angeles As Wildfires Rage – “We’ll Be Fighting This All Week” In what sounds like a replay of the devastating fires that killed dozens of people and torched a broad swath of California wine country this past summer, at least five discrete fires barreled across Southern California with extreme speed, torching more […]
After Wildfires, Californians Warned: ‘You Will See Rapid Flooding, People TRAPPED’
After Wildfires, Californians Warned: ‘You Will See Rapid Flooding, People TRAPPED’ Maxwell, California flooded in 2017 Experts are warning that California’s state capital could be the next hot spot to experience massive flooding on catastrophe levels. Officials are admitting that one particular Sacramento neighborhood is in an area that never should have been settled, to begin […]
