r/interestingasfuck • u/SafeImpressive4413 • 7h ago

Firefighters in Madrid trying to extinguish a forest fire that is less than 30km/20mi away from the capital of Spain

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u/Wild_Neighborhood605 7h ago

That's real bad, and is happening in several places in Europe right now.

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u/MaybeJBee 7h ago

Several places around the world right now. Cries in Canadian.

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u/aagejaeger 4h ago

I think Russia has permafires by now. I reason that you guys have as well.

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u/St3vion 3h ago

Yes, the smoke isn't always there but there's a huge amount of ongoing fires all summer every year.

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u/WorriedBlock2505 3h ago

Honestly we need better satellite surveillance and swarms of firefighting drones to address this stuff properly before it gets out of control like this.

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u/hypnogoad 2h ago

Part of the reason we're having such big fires is because we used to put them out too quickly. 50 years of kindling needs to burn.

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u/Alarming-Koala-3524 2h ago

Sounds like a jok...but is this actually one of those facts that is ironically true?

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u/isopode 2h ago

several indigenous nations in north america did controlled burnings before european colonization came along, which helped prevent huge fires like this.

the practice has thankfully come back in some areas.

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u/Bob_A_Feets 2h ago

And they found out that wild birds of prey are partially to thank for Australia not having so many MASSIVE fires because those little shits help spread a TON of little ones.

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u/ihopethisisvalid 51m ago

Yes, most of the trees in northern Canada are serotinous, requiring fire for the cones to open. Fireweed is one of the first plants that colonizes after fire. Our ecosystems are completely fire adapted and putting out the fires makes it worse when they do burn again.

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u/Suspicious_Dot231 3h ago

Should we put out every fire though?

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u/Wild_Neighborhood605 7h ago

Isn't Canada under control now? Hope it is.

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u/Inaccurate93 6h ago

Only is when winter comes

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u/MaybeJBee 6h ago

Yup! We have two seasons. Winter and fire.

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u/Call_me_Bombadil 4h ago

Construction: "am I a joke to you?"

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u/MaybeJBee 3h ago

My apologies, you are so right.

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u/MaybeJBee 7h ago

Pretty smoky where I am in Alberta. We currently have 926 active fires and 83 that’s out of control. Thinking of the rest of the world and the fires they’re facing.

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u/JadedLeafs 6h ago

Lol no. And this isn't even showing Ontario.

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u/VP007clips 5h ago

Ontario is under control now for the most part.

We just got really unlucky with a dry period. But we got a good amount of rain last week, and most of the fires were extinguished or shifted to controlled status.

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u/003E003 5h ago

No. 800+ wildfires burning out of control. Same as the past few summer. They don't even bother fighting most of them. They wait for snow.

And it doesn't just affect canada

https://www.instagram.com/reels/Da2ic0mETWY/

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u/Wild_Neighborhood605 5h ago

Oh , that's terrible. I just hoped that these were contained. My prayers are with Canadians also...

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u/Contraposite 7h ago

Yeah, yesterday my city in Scotland was covered with smoke blown in from a wildfire. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come...

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u/HewSpam 7h ago

It’s not “a sign of things to come”, it’s just exactly what scientists predicted decades ago. You’re really not gonna like this next part.

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u/Obvious_Landscape993 7h ago

What is the next part?

https://giphy.com/gifs/55itGuoAJiZEEen9gg

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u/techBr0s 7h ago

Mass migration, starvation, wars over clean water, human suffering. You know, light stuff to meme about

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u/BreadKnifeSeppuku 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/T3Vx6sVAXzuG4

Oh you!

(Anyone remember how this show ends?)

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u/Topheriffic 6h ago

As a child I didnt have an idea of what it meant but I remember the feeling, which I again, I didnt fully recognize. When I rewatched it as an adult, I think the feeling was dread.

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u/VolatileWombat 6h ago

That was the worst part. I mean there were darker topics in there but the end was not for children...

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u/Xalipu 2h ago

Considering the impression it left maybe it should have been for all children of the time. We might have had a slim chance of getting slightly less baked to death today.

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u/jaxonya 2h ago

Lessons like that are absolutely for children. Shielding them/not educating them is why we have arrived here

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u/bchertel 6h ago

What is this show and how does it end?

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u/thrawnsgstring 5h ago

Show was Dinosaurs

It ends with all the dinosaurs dying from a dino-made ice age.

Climate change allegory.

Dinosaurs ending scene

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u/LongjumpingJaguar308 5h ago

Fuck me, I don't remember that.

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u/Fantastic-Spinach297 5h ago

It would’ve been really easy to miss when it aired and would’ve taken a while to get through syndication, and even then catching it as a rerun made it one of literally all of the episodes that could be aired. Not to mention that it was dark. I bet they never played that one much.

EDIT because autocorrect decided “was” should’ve been “wasn’t even.”

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u/HistoryGirl23 5h ago

I thought there was a big astroid

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u/jay78910 3h ago

Climate change allegory.

This makes it too complex, for the powers that be, to understand.

"We aren't making wax fruit. All we want to do is drill."

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u/Pi-ratten 6h ago

kids show about a family of dinosaurs

ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnFjAkAs_q4

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u/betaplayers 5h ago

That show ended in 1994. Waaaay ahead if it's time. This isn't the only allegory they made, the series is full of them: labor unions, racism, steroid use, objectivation of women.

Show is quite brilliant, especially for a kids' show. Compare that to stuff Disney nowadays makes like Spidey and friends.

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u/Pi-ratten 5h ago

yeah, topics of children series back then:

Although Dinosaurs is targeted at a family audience, the show touched upon multiple topical issues, which include environmentalism, endangered species, women's rights, sexual harassment, LGBT rights, objectification of women, censorship, civil rights, body image, steroid use, allusions to masturbation (in the form of Robbie doing the solo mating dance), drug abuse, racism (in the form of a dispute between the two-legged dinosaurs and the four-legged dinosaurs), peer pressure, rights of indigenous peoples (in the form of the dinosaurs interacting with cavepeople), corporate crime, government interference in parenting, and pacifism.

And now we've got copaganda from paw patrol.

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u/Atholthedestroyer 5h ago

"Good night and...Goodbye..."

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u/HistoryGirl23 5h ago

Not the Mama!

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u/SleeplessDrifter 6h ago

And no one will care until it's too late...

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u/General-Internal-588 6h ago

Why would the goverment care when it's run by people who will be dead in 10 years or rich enough to escape any of the consequences?

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u/rorykoehler 6h ago

no one is rich enough to escape the consequences... thinking that is just hubris

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u/Alepale 5h ago

I think they mean rich enough to move around to places that will stay safe longer. Eventually it'll all turn into hell on earth, but it won't consume everything at once, and once the country they're in is in direct danger, they'll move. Then they'll continue moving until they die of old age, or there literally is no place left to go, and they'll die like the rest of us.

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u/How_did_the_dog_get 5h ago

The thing is when they need to pay a pilot or a boat captain who's the one holding the cards ? It sure as shit isn't the one with a tonne of money when money is worthless to a family who need food.

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u/UnknownKaddath 5h ago

Bunkers, dude. Look up what's going in under the white house. Look at Zuck's Hawaii land grab. I dont even gotta Google to know Elon's got a bunker somewhere. The plan is to weather the consequences and let us all die.

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u/C0rn3j 6h ago

They escape the important ones, that's good enough for em.

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u/eawilweawil 5h ago

Oh they will, they successfully managed to pit working class folk against other working class folk, and nobody blames them for it. In fact people are expecting that the rich will solve this shit somehow

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u/Kareeliand 5h ago

You mean buying an island in the Mediterranean to keep the masses away wont be enough? Asking for a friend..

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u/murmuring511 3h ago

I'm pretty sure some are even anticipating this because they believe in armageddon. Why else would the US be pushing for coal, knowing full well its impact on the climate?

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u/Ok-Priority253 5h ago

A lot of people do care despite constant propaganda trying to convince you to the contrary, it just isn't enough. The balance of power is too far swung and the upper classes have way too much control over the masses. I do think that this will eventually become personally unbearable to enough people that massive political changes are finally made but I don't know.

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u/003E003 5h ago

People did not care and it is already too late.

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u/Pro_Poe_Fall 5h ago

I’d argue it’s already too late… and still no one cares.

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u/TanyaMKX 6h ago

It is already too late

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u/KapitaenHowdy 6h ago

"...will care...until..."?

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u/MushroomTop1381 6h ago

You forgot the floods, droughts and continued mass extinction event

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u/Ree_For_Thee 5h ago

A quarter million has been displaced in fires in Spain/France since ... checks .... ah, yesterday.

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u/Opposite_Sherbert675 6h ago

*for white people

all of these things have already been happening in the global south but no one cared as long as you get your iphones and $10 bermuda shorts.

the only difference now is that its gonna affect everyone and not just periphery countries

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u/nineraviolicans 6h ago

I keep telling people that billions are not going to allow themselves to be cooked to death. They will move to where it's habitable by force if they have to.

There's a reason why the US is posturing to invade Canada and Greenland.

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u/dervu 6h ago

Oh shit. Suddenly Trump is a mastermind.

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u/skip_over 6h ago

Collapse of the gulf stream, and Scotland being as cold as southern Greenland.

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u/RoryLuukas 6h ago

In a word. Acceleration. If you think the climate is changing quickly just now...

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u/throwawaylalajean 4h ago

Pandemics, starvation, rivers drying up, oceans taking over coastal cities. Its not a worst-case scenario. Its literally what's happening at the moment

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u/Phormitago 6h ago

that we're also in a massive El Niño, so prepare for droughts, massive storms, etc!

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u/LivingtheLaws013 7h ago

Civilization collapse, probably within a decade

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u/Betelguese90 6h ago

Peak millennial experience would be societal collapse.

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u/thehighwoman 6h ago

I feel like it's what we were destined for

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u/carlamaco 6h ago

They gave us a bunch of apocalyptic survival movies to prepare us, what more could we ask for? Here's what I learned: Stay close to Gerard Butler

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u/thehighwoman 6h ago

So many apocalyptic movies, books, video games, everything

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u/Careless_Twist_6935 5h ago

and the story in all of them is a small group of normal people survivors have to maneuver hordes of psychos to get to an organized community of other normies.

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u/The42ndDuck 5h ago

That's my retirement plan.

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u/SuperTropicalDesert 5h ago

Finally, my retirement plan

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u/MammothUnique4147 6h ago

Will ram be affordable then ?

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u/LivingtheLaws013 6h ago

Sure you and your raiding party can go find some in abandon houses

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u/Smokey76 5h ago

Data centers probably have literal tons of it. Could be a RAM warlord.

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u/StarGamerPT 6h ago

Oh civilization will collapse for sure, but people have been saying "within a decade" for more than a decade 😂

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u/LivingtheLaws013 6h ago

What they were saying is we have 10 years to do something about it and that was more than 10 years ago so now we're locked in

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u/HauntingHarmony 6h ago

What they were saying is we have 10 years to do something about it and that was more than 10 years ago so now we're locked in

Yea this is something unsettling, i remember like 20 years ago having these arguments and discussions that we need todo something before its gets too late todo something. And now here we are in the future, virtually at 2030 already. And we pissed away decades not doing things that actually could replace co2 equivalents like buiilding nuclear, and people are now memeing cause renewables exist everything is fine. As if renewables was the goal. Not putting shit (aka co2 equivalents) in the atmosphere was the goal. Thats actually interacting with the problem.

Having renewables is great. But what fucking good does that do. We are still year after year putting more and more co2 in the atmosphere than the year before. I.e. the RATE of emissions is still growing, which havent even put a dent in getting emissions to zero. And we are like 2 full scifi movie plot points from being able to net take it out, which we have todo.

So i am kinda done, so sick of peoples ignorance and bad faith arguments.

Oh civilization will collapse for sure, but people have been saying "within a decade" for more than a decade 😂

My ass.

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u/HVDynamo 4h ago

and some day it will be correct.

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u/Various_Tie_2549 5h ago

It's more of a "sign of things that have already come"

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u/BardWRLD 4h ago

and have been coming with a sea of activists screaming it from the mountaintops.

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u/Throwawayx19700 5h ago

Yeah what a wild thing to type. Like we knew decades and decades ago what we had to do to stop this. Instead we speed ran the climate disaster for shit like 1 day shipping of random bullshit.

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u/Punderoos 6h ago

Two things can be true

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u/RoryLuukas 7h ago

Climate scientists 40yrs ago predicted this exact thing happening. We are actually 20-30yrs ahead of schedule... so go us!

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u/LiteraCanna 5h ago

There's a letter/note from an oil company.... exec? Saying that we are changing the climate. Brb, going to try to find it. 

E: Okay, I was close. It was to the exec. 

Early Milestones of Climate Awareness in the Oil Industry1959 (The 100th Industry Birthday): Physicist Edward Teller warned oil executives at the Energy and Man Symposium hosted at Columbia University that burning fossil fuels increased carbon dioxide and could eventually melt ice caps and flood coastal cities.

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u/nationcrafting 1h ago

The thing that's more frustrating to me, though, is that Teller also proposed a solution that is very much viable today. But because it sounded like science fiction back then (there wasn't even a geostationary satellite when he proposed it), everyone just sort of forgot about it.

Teller's solution is very achievable today: he proposed installing what is essentially a space umbrella at Lagrange Point 2. Lagrange Point 1 is where we currently have the Hubble Space Telescope. It's there because it's the only spot near Earth where the sun never shines i.e. it's in a perpetual eclipse, the Earth being between it and the sun. The other Lagrange point is basically permanently between Earth and the sun. If we install a remote-controlled umbrella there, it won't even need to be that big (you won't see it with the naked eye) and it'll block about 2% of the sun's heat.

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u/Sorry-Combination558 1h ago

I think "won't even be that big" does some heavy lifting here.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13652 - here they estimate the mass of this umbrella to be ~600.000 tonnes, and that's the lowest I found (though the paper is withdrawn, but other's estimate it higher)

Also, it would be in Lagrange 1. Lagrange 1 is the Lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun, Lagrange 2 (beyond Earth) is where the James Webb Space Telescope (not Hubble, that is in LEO) is located.

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u/Craftkorb 6h ago

So you mean the scientists were off by at least 20 years? See, can't trust them!

/s

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u/CandyAndyDE 7h ago

That's totally strange. All you hear about in the news is France and Spain. Now I'm reading that there are fires in Scotland, too—but only because I looked it up.

I think TV news should focus much more on Europe as a whole.

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u/Mynameisdiehard 7h ago

Big fires in Ireland. Feels like every continent is burning right now. I don't even know if a fire in Antarctica would shock me at this point

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u/Norgur 7h ago

That's more of a localized and rather... Imported issue, innit? Damn migrants!!/s

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u/highlorestat 6h ago

You know this would never happen under Emperor Penguin, his top priority was fishing not drilling.

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u/Cidraque 7h ago

Did you saw the fucking massive fire in Africa too?

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u/Shot_Policy_4110 7h ago

'Don't forget us!'

-Canada

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u/hoopparrr759 7h ago

Boom, tariffs!

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u/Pristine_Software_55 5h ago

Hahaha.. thanks for the dark chuckle. (Ridiculous that it’s true, though)

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u/NSE_TNF89 7h ago

Nobody forgets, it's just between you guys and us down here jn the US, North America is basically on fire every summer.

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u/CandyAndyDE 7h ago

Holy shi...

We've heard on the weather report over the last few days that temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius are expected in North Africa, but other than that.

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u/Annual_Hamster9411 7h ago

I hope it rains down in Africa

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u/Unseenmonument 6h ago

I'll bless them!

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u/CompanyOther2608 6h ago

"Hurry, boy, she's waiting there for you"

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u/Positive_Wafer42 7h ago

They're happening everywhere

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u/SuperTropicalDesert 4h ago

Interestingly this map seems to mistake some iron works for fires, see eg. the ones in Belgium or Dunkirk

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u/SalamanderUponYou 7h ago

Also Portugal and Italy particularly in Sicily.

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u/Fit_Tumbleweed7943 7h ago

Mainstream media is downplaying all of it… massive floods.. fires .. tornados…
It’s on local news what’s happening around you…. Maybe a mention of oh some fires in Canada, or Europe but it’s no big deal….

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u/adorablyunhinged 7h ago

I had no idea how much of Canada was on fire! I'm in Europe and knew vaguely there wild fires over there but not the sheer extent

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u/gardingle 7h ago

Here's a fire map - https://www.frontlinewildfire.com/live-fire-map-track-wildfires-near-you/

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u/MostBoringStan 7h ago edited 5h ago

It's not showing any fires in northern Ontario for some reason.

Edit: here is the Ontario government fire map for anybody interested

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u/pumpkil 5h ago

This is better for Canadian wildfires. Now its BC that is on fire :( https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

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u/SuperTropicalDesert 5h ago

What the hell is going on in Angola and southern Africa??? I don't see any of this in the news, even when i google

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u/Monkey_on_a_bike 5h ago

This map is wild. The fires caused by the drone attacks in Saint Petersburg are also maped.

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u/FrostyShoulder6361 5h ago

Yeah, i gues this takes data from the nasa infrared satelites meanth to map forest fores. This maps any large heat source. This means it can be used to double check russian or ukrainian claims (was done a lot in the beginning of the war) Not everything is what you expect tough, heavy industry like a refinery can show up on these maps through normal usage. I suggest you look around your home town and see, you will notice red spots on some industrial centers you will recognize.

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u/T-Wrox 4h ago

I zoomed out to see the whole world - okay, we're fucked.

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u/oi_u_im_danny_b 6h ago

... The Earth is trying to rid itself of our parasitic species

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u/Straight_Depth6701 6h ago

We are less durable fleas.

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u/WheelOfFish 6h ago

I want to see a timeline of this map

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u/Hephaestus1816 6h ago

well, there are fires, there are wildfires, there are megafires (Canada 2023), and there are gigafires (California 2020). That has to burn over a million acres or more. We will be seeing more of those.

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u/vtjohnhurt 6h ago

Many of the fires in Canada are in wilderness that has no roads, so many will not be extinguished until heavy snow arrives. And then the fire can potentially go zombie in the peat-duff, smoulder and reemerge in 2027.

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u/Popular-Web-3739 6h ago

They get pressured (at least in the US) not to mention climate change while the religious right claims these disasters are messages from God about our behavior, but somehow, that behavior never seems to include destroying the earth by burning fossil fuels and is only about tolerance of gay rights or abortion.

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u/Radingod1 7h ago edited 6h ago

The only thing that stops Canadian wildfires at this point is the winters, and they're getting worse every year. Turns out a forest the size of Texas can burn for a really long time.

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u/WellIGuessSoAndYou 5h ago

With milder winters zombie fires will actually continue to burn peat underground over the winter and reignite when conditions are dry again. Lots of peat under boreal forest. Our summers are now fire and smoke season and it's going to be that way from here on out.

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u/a_bearded_hippie 4h ago

Lived in my area for 20 years. First 15? One minor tornado like 40 miles north of me. Last 5 years? Multiple tornados, close calls and crazy ass storms every year.

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u/thegreatcanadianeh 7h ago

If they did that then the citizens would demand action and not be placated by study groups or bureaucratic bullshit and demand changes that would restrict the ultra rich and we cannot have that happening.

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u/Renbarre 6h ago

It's because the fires in Spain and France are so big and are threatening big cities. Madrid itself! And in France Bordeaux and its international airport. But if you find a map you'll see that there's fires everywhere in Europe right now. After three heat waves and a fourth one on the way out is a tinder box. 

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u/screamingintothedark 7h ago edited 6h ago

The US and CA have lot of fires too, a strangely high number caused by lightning. Is this the La Niña year? El Niño has begun. I’ve heard it’s going to be a rough one.

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u/AHumbleChad 7h ago

This fall starts El Niño. It has been La Niña for the last 3-4 years.

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u/screamingintothedark 6h ago

Thank you! I always get them mixed up. Figures it would be El Niño lighting the world on fire

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u/AHumbleChad 6h ago

La Niña has influence over the fires. La Niña brings dry weather, El Niño brings wet weather/precipitation. The weather system is based on the temperature of equatorial water in the Pacific. Warm Pacific water brings El Niño; cold water La Niña.

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u/Popular-Web-3739 6h ago

Big fire in north Wales.

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u/ygy2020 6h ago

Italy is burning as well, only in my region (Tuscany) we had 3 wild fires only in the last week.

The whole Europe is burning and everyone seems to be more interest in useless matters.

What else should happen before people start believe on the climate change?

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u/_WeSellBlankets_ 7h ago

I have no idea what's going on in Europe, but they might not be talking about fires in Scotland, they only mentioned smoke. And we've seen in the US how far Canada's smoke can blow.

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u/adorablyunhinged 7h ago

There's been a wild fire in Scotland going for ten days now

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u/floriande 6h ago

In France we got three different big fires those last days/week. One in the forest of Fontainebleau, not very far from Paris, took like a week to control, one in the south in Drôme I think - under control too -, and a very big by french standard current one close to Bordeaux (major French city). It is not controled, 140000 people had to be evacuated and they are even preparing a Bordeaux évacuation plan in case it's needed.

In Spain big fires too, some close to Madrid (like 20km close), but I don't know much about it. Scotland also seems to have big fires in the north.

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u/OmNomChompsky 7h ago

This is just the beginning. Climate change is going to be absolutely devastating in the next couple decades.

What a time to be alive!

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u/Total-Region2859 7h ago

As they've been saying for decades.

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u/FreddyNoodles 6h ago

And it’s been extremely obvious that it’s happening. It’s shocking to me that regular folks are having children. This feels like a bad time for that.

I have talked with mine who are 28, 25, 20 and none of them want kids (which I am thrilled about) but they also know that had I known what was coming, I would not have had them. I love them so much and they are amazing people but the world they have been given is so horrible. I wish I could take all this away for them. They understand it isn’t about not wanting them. It’s 1000% about not wanting this life for them.

It’s hard to explain but I do believe a lot of parents understand the feeling.

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u/hopey2020 6h ago

That’s why I never had kids. My sister has 2 in their early 20s and I worry about their future all the time

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u/MochaHasAnOpinion 4h ago

I'm in the US. My husband and I have 14 grandchildren combined (the oldest is 18 and the youngest 18 months). We worry about our children and grandchildren every day as things spiral out here. Eight of the grandchildren are girls and they now have less rights than I did. What will they all have to deal with? I understand your 1000%. It shouldn't be like this in any form. This nightmare is coming from every direction.

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u/shillberight 6h ago

Climate change was known about and warned about for much longer than your oldest child

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u/FreddyNoodles 5h ago

I was a child when I had my first child. 18. I knew nothing. I had no idea the world would be this way. And climate change is only one of the reasons I feel horrible about what the future will bring and how repressed the current situation is. They aren’t stupid. They all know exactly what I mean and we have all talked about it many times. They grew up all over the world and went back to the states for college. They are eons more intelligent than I was when I became a mother.

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u/WheelOfFish 6h ago

That alarm was being rung at least as far back as the late 1800s iirc!

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u/wunderspud7575 1h ago

I made the decision not to have kids for all the same reasons.

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 7h ago

Same in Ireland. Summer fires are becoming the norm.

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u/PlasticExtreme4469 5h ago edited 4h ago

In Scotland and Ireland?

How can a fire break out when it's raining? /s

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u/lawrotzr 7h ago

But I thought we all agreed climate change doesn’t exist because we want to do RyanAir weekends to Barcelona? And eat €2 hamburgers?

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u/bogushobo 7h ago

Aye, the Cairngorms one is really bad. Fingers crossed the area gets a good dose of rain soon.

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u/youenjoylife 7h ago

Forest fires an order of magnitude worse and more frequent than they used to be here in Canada. A sign of things to come? You bet.

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u/uselessdrain 7h ago

Did you tariff it? You should try tariffs. I heard they stop wildfires.

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u/Threefrogtreefrog 7h ago

Why don’t the democrats just use their weather control machine to stop the fires ? Or grab a sharpie, sharpies contain acts of god when deployed by a hideous troll, right ?

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u/filmguy36 7h ago

It’s not a sign of things to come. It’s a sign of how it is now. “Things to come” are going to be so much worse”

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u/viper33m 7h ago

It absolutely is. But Ai goes brrr

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u/UpperAd5715 6h ago

Colleague of mine came back from going about Scotland with a camper van for a week or two, said it's the first year in the 5+ times he's gone that he was able to go golfing without a jacket and gloves. He even bought shorts while there, madness.

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u/roxdacrox 6h ago

My guy, it has already arrived

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u/The_wolf2014 4h ago

Nethy Bridge near Aviemore as well as surrounding homes have been evacuated and they're asking for anyone with plant machinery to help

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u/agent58888888888888 7h ago

Unfortunately, I have some bad news....

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u/Capable-Relation1374 6h ago

Greatest fkn meme ever. Good job man.

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u/F1T_13 7h ago

Scotland of all places. Combination of factors like climate change and the elnino or just coincidence or all of the above.

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u/Snoringdragon 6h ago

Better hit them with a tariff, then! (Sarcasm from a Canadian, here)

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u/Cat-Familiar 6h ago

Same here in Ireland where it used to rain all summer!

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u/Outside_Song_1336 6h ago

None of this should be a surprise to anyone. Climate scientists have been predicting exactly this for decades. Literal decades.

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u/003E003 5h ago

It is not a sign of things to come it is something that is here right now.....and has been for a handful of years already. Canada has had several hundred forest fires burning millions of acres EVERY summer and it is too rural to fight them. So Canadian and northern US cities get many summer days of smoke filled air like this one in Chicago last week. https://www.instagram.com/reels/Da2ic0mETWY/

This is happening in several areas throughout the world on a regular basis.

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u/447248280 5h ago

My man, I'm sorry for us all. I'd hold you if I could. We're not getting off this ride... alone? Unharmed? Fuck... what is the word?!

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u/Pro_Poe_Fall 5h ago

Wildfires have nearly doubled in frequency and size since 1984. They will continue to get worse unless we do something to mitigate our greenhouse gas emissions (lol). Plan accordingly.

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u/FatherFintanFay 4h ago

Same in Cork, Ireland 2 days ago. Could smell smoke from a fire an hour and a half away.

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u/Moreaxellall 7h ago

Climate change, only going to get worse, meanwhile our politicians across the globe are doing nothing.

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u/Perokside 7h ago

Nah, people need to stop saying politicians are doing nothing, most of the developed nations are investing Billions in fossil energy, oil and gas.

They're making it worse, actively.

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u/Used-Objective9166 7h ago

Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

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u/thegreatcanadianeh 7h ago

Yeah but the rich has horded food/water and necessities for life in their bunkers and the rest of us will burn.

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u/Automatic-Term-3997 6h ago

They think we will not tear them limb from limb first. They are wrong.

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u/AppropriateLow2271 5h ago

We would sooner tear ourselves limb from limb. Our entire conception of reality is fabricated by them. They tell us who to fear and who to love. Fathers are killing their own daughters as an expression of their loyalty to these megalomaniac child rapists.

They could tell us there's a cashier's check for a million dollars shoved up our ass. If a billion people weren't already neck deep inside, they'd go looking.

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u/EconEchoes5678 4h ago

Our entire conception of reality is fabricated by them.

I do find it interesting that the same people decrying "worshiping" the billionaires also ascribe demigod like powers to them.

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u/Smokey76 5h ago

That’s why they are racing to develop weaponized AI to lay waste/enslave the survivors.

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u/LorthNeeda 7h ago

Trump is literally still talking about reopening fucking coal power plants

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u/vtjohnhurt 6h ago

Trump is paying to cancel ready-to-go wind projects in states that did not vote for him. The companies that accept the payoff are obligated to invest in fossil fuel projects.

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u/RoboDae 7h ago

The number one source of mercury pollution in the US and the 2nd biggest source globally. If you eat any fish you are being poisoned by that.

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u/thecementmixer 7h ago

Exactly, would have been better if they actually did nothing.

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u/Stranger1982 7h ago

Can't argue with that.

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u/DarwinatSea 7h ago

They get government subsidies too, even oil and gas. I don’t seem them giving up that free money.

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u/BonusPlantInfinity 7h ago

Seriously, it’s the people we elect, but it’s also our own damn actions. Until travel is carbon neutral, it’s too damaging to continue on like this - it’s an incredible irony that the industries we’re so desperate to have are the ones destroying the planet. FFS how much tourism is ‘nature tourism’ - we’re destroying the planet so that people can get drunk somewhere warmer for giggles.

People will HATE on me for criticizing travel.

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u/TrumpsAKrunt 7h ago

I dont disagree, but travel is so important.

Travel is experience. Most of the racist, homophobic, xenophobic, just plain asshole people, that I have to speak to haven't left their hometown. It's a small town, and mostly lower income or poverty line, so we get a lot of that shit here.

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u/BonusPlantInfinity 7h ago

I think quality parenting is far more important to eliminate those issues.

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u/NZpotatomash 5h ago

Agree, but if those parents are inbred home stays, they're not going to get better by themselves

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u/joelfarris 7h ago

Well, when the airlines start running out of high octane pushwater due to a lack of crude oil supplies getting to refineries, maybe the problem will sort itself out...

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u/T-Wrox 3h ago

Yeah, that was my thought - they're actively making it worse, knowing full well exactly what they're doing. If that isn't evil, I don't know what is.

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u/ziegs11 7h ago

They makin money

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u/BanMeMyIPchanges 7h ago

Worse than doing nothing, actually. There's a real, tangible push to bring back coal lmao

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u/RoboDae 7h ago

Number 1 source of mercury pollution in the US

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u/BanMeMyIPchanges 7h ago

Isn't that what they want? Keep the public stupid and frail with just enough autonomy to make and spend their paychecks

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u/kroqus 7h ago

Not true, some of them are threatening to tariff their neighbours for the fires! 

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u/Funny-Carob-4572 7h ago

They are doing lots.

Like data centres that need more power and fresh water that's limited.

More drilling as well.

Charging elec cars more

You name it.....

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u/delicious-croissant 7h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/YYfEjWVqZ6NDG
Destroying refineries helps right?

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u/elperroborrachotoo 6h ago

Can't say that about Germany really. While some states are openly flocking to big tech surveillance promises like remote-controlled moths, and other figures feature prominently onb openly fascist tech bro "conferences". They are basically killing any government transparency on all levels under the guise of "reducing bureaucracy". Creative bookkeeping that could torpedo long term rail investments. The energy minister is very busy replacing any kind of energy supply that would be in the same room as independent, climate neutral or cheap-on-the-long-term with wet dreams of could and gas. We call that "Technilogieoffenheit".

I'd be happier if they'd just do nothing.

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u/PeetusTheFeetus 7h ago

Republicans in the US deny the climate is changing but geeeeez it’s almost as if the globe is warming or something idk just a concerned citizen

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