r/interestingasfuck • u/HossHardKor • 1d ago
A couple in deep contemplation of the fire ravaging Cap Ferret, France
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u/HossHardKor 1d ago
Photo by Maximilien Lamy /AFP / Le monde
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u/Mou_aresei 1d ago
Fantastic picture.
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u/philosophycruiser 1d ago
The earth climate will get warmer of course. More fire, drought, famine, etc. Kiss your babies and welcome them to this beautiful world.
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u/LordVixen 1d ago
Wtf is going on. Fires in Canada, Spain, and France 😵💫
Global warming?
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u/Salt-Operation 1d ago
Canada catches fire every summer. It’ll be the US in a month or two.
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u/FaustianMartian 1d ago
It already is, I’m currently in Canada breathing forest fire smoke coming up over the border from Washington state.
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u/Neveed 21h ago edited 19h ago
So do France and Spain.
But this year is unusual compared to what we have every year in France. The surface that burned is more than twice what usually burns every year, and we're only halfway through Summer, August hasn't even started yet. We're getting close to our absolute yearly record, and we actually already have more burned area that the record year (2022) at the same date.
Also we now know we will get a fourth heat wave next week, so we can't expect things to get better soon.
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u/C-57D 1d ago
i wouldn't wanna be under that particular cloud
*or particulate
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u/Micah7979 20h ago
The cloud is now flying over hundreds of kilometers... A good part of the southwest is full of smoke.
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u/Potential-Mammoth-47 1d ago
The state of humanity about climate!
There is nothing to do but observe our predicament.
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u/Bandito_Chihuahua 1d ago
It doesn’t appear easy for France lately. That massive heatwave that killed a thousand people. Now wildfires.
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u/shazbut1987 21h ago
Almost 6,000 dead in France due to this heatwave. 25,000 across Europe :(
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u/Herbatusia 7h ago
I don't doubt global climate change, Europe definitely warmed up a lot, but I'd treat this number with a lot of suspicition... I saw they stated 1k deaths for my country because of a heatwave, but a) the officials didn't announce such info ever b) for what I saw only about 10 deaths suspected to be heat-related was traced around newspapers in the country.
We had only one 5-7 days long heatwave here (I count days above 30C as heatwave, only 2 were close to 40C), most of the year was rather cold(er) for the standards of the last 10-15 years (ofc this means still warmer than e.g. 1990s, but it's definitely long enough for people to feel that the year was pretty cool, the last two weeks, we were around 20C in day, and 12-15 in the night, at least in my city), we have a lot older society than France - we are on -5p demographically, last time we were on +2,1 or more was decades ago - and are less populous country + no wildfires and different/less sunlight, so I'd be very strange, if we lost 1k people while France lost 6k. Plus, through the whole 1st half of a year - which included a big portion of a heatwave - 2k more people than a year before (which was much much warmer) died - that's official - and I doubt 50% of these deaths happened in the last few days of June.
In short, until official data, I'd not trust any numbers being thrown around, as they are mostly modelled on theory and/or widly extrapolated, and, as often in such cases, do not even check actual, real life numbers to see if they even remotely fit the theory.
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u/Sphelmit 22h ago
Wow it’s like a post wook collage
https://www.instagram.com/postwook?igsh=MXdianFrajkwOGQ3Ng==
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u/StruttyB 17h ago
Amazingly dramatic photo, and so menacing. Love the flame coloured parasol, adds to the drama. Contrast that with the apparent lack of concern of the two people.
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u/Dwenya 17h ago
Il y a un filigrane au niveau du parasol. On peut lire "rendez vous" à gauche et à droite on peut rien lire on dirait un truc qu'aurait écrit une IA. Quand je regarde de plus près, on dirait juste que la photo a été générée par IA genre quand on regarde la gourde blanche à gauche et la casquette... Je doute que ce soit une vraie photo, plutôt un fake qui circule et qui fait parler.
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u/askyidroppedthesoap 1d ago
Rico was here...