Vast swathes of the Arctic suffering from "unprecedented" wildfires, new satellite images show

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Source: The London Economic

Disturbing satellite images have uncovered vast swathes of the Arctic suffering from “unprecedented” wildfires.

Pictures taken by Pierre Markuse show smoke billowing across massive areas of uninhabited and wild land in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska.

With the ice melt on the enormous Greenland icesheet commencing a month earlier than average huge areas of land have been exposed to record-breaking summer temperatures.

Mark Parrington, a senior scientist at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast, said the amount of CO2 emitted by Arctic wildfires between 1 June and 21 July 2019 is around 100 megatonnes and is approaching the entire 2017 fossil fuel CO2 emissions of Belgium.


Read more: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/vast-swathes-of-the-arctic-suffering-from-unprecedented-wildfires-new-satellite-images-show/24/07/

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[ffr]

1. No human has witenessed such things

Because no human was around on Earth when CO2 PPM was this high previously. EVER!

[htuttle]

2. When those of us that manage to survive end up living underground

...Let's eat the Republicans first.

[Everyman Jackal]

3. Why wait?

[pecosbob]

7. I have plenty of silverware

and an antique guillotine I've been meaning to restore.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Oh goodie...permafrost melting releasing methane gas

WITH fires now too?!?!? Who cares about the future, destroy the planet for instant $$$ and pay later (there is no "later&quot .

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. THIS IS TERRIFYING

[Gumboot]

6. The heating / burning feedback loop is accelerating rapidly.

If we make it to 2030, it'll be a miracle.

[Bayard]

8. Scary beyond belief

Wildfires on snow.....

[Everyman Jackal]

9. What the Earth needs

is a virus that kills only humans and has a mortality rate of 90-95%. Otherwise, humans will slowly die off and take many species with them.