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Learning the Hard Way: example of cascading climate disaster due to uncontrollable Earth dynamics.
Lytton, BC, burned to the ground because the heat dome turned the surrounding forest into a tinderbox creating a pyrocumulonimbus event triggering over 700k lightning strikes and forming an inland tropical depression.
We puny humans, ALL of us, have a real hard time understanding how fucking fast large systems can change once enough energy builds up. It’s all exponential stuff that we just don’t usually have the mental capacity to conceptually grasp, nor the alghorithms for predicting or measuring.
There are changes that could easily wipe all life out in a matter of hours on this planet if the right mechanisms got the right energy.
Lytton, BC, is humans' first example.
Humans. WE ALL must learn this now. NOW.
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We puny humans, ALL of us, have a real hard time understanding how fucking fast large systems can change once enough energy builds up. It’s all exponential stuff that we just don’t usually have the mental capacity to conceptually grasp, nor the alghorithms for predicting or measuring.
Your life. You learn your way. I'll learn mine.
Not the most convincing argument I've ever seen....
If I'm wrong, please explain how.
That's not how it works. As the one making the assertion, it's incumbent upon you to defend it. Once you've done so, I'll be happy to explain why you're wrong.
I would point out that you've already acknowledged that I'm the one who's being rational in this matter, though.
... and its largest tributary, the Thompson River.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-june-30-2021-1.6085919
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1916615747872/
Wow!
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1916615747872/
CBC News · Posted: Jun 30, 2021 9:02 AM PT
A small B.C. village that endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada for days on end this week was engulfed in flames Wednesday night and residents were forced to flee, many without their belongings.
Mayor Jan Polderman says he told everyone to leave Lytton, as a fire rapidly spread into the community of about 250 people. He signed the official evacuation order at 6 p.m. PT.
"It's dire. The whole town is on fire," Polderman told CBC News. "It took, like, a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere."
He said he told residents to head for the nearby community of Boston Bar, and was on his way there himself. A reception centre has also been set up in Merritt to the east, and other residents have taken shelter in Lillooet to the north.
"At the First Nation band office, the fire was a wall about three, four feet high coming up to the fence line. I drove through town and it was just smoke, flames, the wires were down," Polderman said.
Video captured by residents rushing out of town show numerous structures on fire in every direction.
Later Wednesday night, residents of another 87 properties to the north of Lytton were ordered to leave home as well.
A small B.C. village that endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada for days on end this week was engulfed in flames Wednesday night and residents were forced to flee, many without their belongings.
Mayor Jan Polderman says he told everyone to leave Lytton, as a fire rapidly spread into the community of about 250 people. He signed the official evacuation order at 6 p.m. PT.
"It's dire. The whole town is on fire," Polderman told CBC News. "It took, like, a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere."
He said he told residents to head for the nearby community of Boston Bar, and was on his way there himself. A reception centre has also been set up in Merritt to the east, and other residents have taken shelter in Lillooet to the north.
"At the First Nation band office, the fire was a wall about three, four feet high coming up to the fence line. I drove through town and it was just smoke, flames, the wires were down," Polderman said.
Video captured by residents rushing out of town show numerous structures on fire in every direction.
Later Wednesday night, residents of another 87 properties to the north of Lytton were ordered to leave home as well.
Wow!
Sounds like something the clouds do to celebrate the 4th of July.
Yes, you are correct. We left the prevention zone during the years Gore would have been president, and are now in the mitigation zone. Mitigation can take many generations ahead. It's not something that can wind down as quickly as our awareness has grown. Working hard on mitigation will be a way of life, not a hobby for some and/or life's work for the rest.
Mitigation starts with me.
