{"id":47509,"date":"2019-07-29T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47509"},"modified":"2019-07-29T07:25:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:25:15","slug":"unprecedented-arctic-wildfires-visible-from-space-as-global-cooling-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47509","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unprecedented&#8221; Arctic Wildfires Visible From Space As &#8216;Global Cooling&#8217; Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-07-28\/unprecedented-arctic-wildfires-visible-space-global-cooling-looms\">&#8220;Unprecedented&#8221; Arctic Wildfires Visible From Space As &#8216;Global Cooling&#8217; Looms<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Numerous wildfires have been ravaging the Arctic for weeks<\/strong>&nbsp;following the hottest June ever recorded on Earth. Now, the fires are so huge and intense, the smoke can literally be seen from space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/5d3ae349fc7e93fc7e8b4571.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/465138-wildfires-arctic-russia-space\/\"><em>As RT reports<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<strong>satellite images show more than 100 long-lived wildfires with huge plumes of swirling black smoke\u00a0<\/strong>covering most of the Arctic Circle including parts of Russia, Siberia, Greenland and Alaska.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CopernicusEMS\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/891204601604710402\/_-WLfQIL_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheNewNormal?src=hash\">#TheNewNormal<\/a>?<br>Smoke vortex caused by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Siberia?src=hash\">#Siberia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wildfires?src=hash\">#wildfires<\/a><br>A rough order of magnitude estimate puts the smoke-covered area at a mind boggling 2 million (yes million) square kilometres<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sentinel3?src=hash\">#Sentinel3<\/a>  acquired today 24 July<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CopernicusEMS\/status\/1154130125543419904\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EARLOjKXYAEzu5k?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The wildfires have now reached \u201c<em>unprecedented levels,<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CopernicusEMS\/status\/1154130125543419904\">according<\/a>\u00a0to Mark Parrington of the EU\u2019s Copernicus Emergency Management Service, who said the smoke vortex is covering a \u201c<em>mind boggling<\/em>\u201d two million square kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unprecedented&#8221; Arctic Wildfires Visible From Space As &#8216;Global Cooling&#8217; Looms Numerous wildfires have been ravaging the Arctic for weeks&nbsp;following the hottest June ever recorded on Earth. Now, the fires are so huge and intense, the smoke can literally be seen from space. As RT reports,\u00a0satellite images show more than 100 long-lived wildfires with huge plumes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1018,22567,9003,2196,8114],"class_list":["post-47509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-arctic","tag-arctic-circle","tag-global-cooling","tag-greenland","tag-rt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47510,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47509\/revisions\/47510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}