"Canadian wildfire points to global warming"

[bluemingidiot]

Experts say the size of the blaze, along with an increase in the number of wildfires in the U.S., are evidence of global warming.  "The overall potential for wildfires in the United States, especially the southern states, is likely to increase," according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.


www.cbsnews.com/news/raging-canadian-wildfire-points-to-global-warming/

[copperkid3]

Saw the latest article this morning on Facebook, bemoaning the loss of (5) island atolls belonging to the Solomon Islands.

The study showed that over the course of the last 67 years, these barely above sea level pieces of dirt, retreated beneath the waves

and of course the global warmist jumped on the bandwagon with both feet decrying the fact that we need to do something RIGHT NOW or

millions of folks will be drowning soon. What none of them mentioned, is that these partly submerged places didn't have any population,

nor have ANY of them considered that instead of the seas rising, could it not also be possible that some parts of the globe subside as well?

Of course not; not in the agenda plan and thus wouldn't be prudent.

[Deleted]

It's a matter of fuel on the ground. Several places haven't burnt for years, some just needs the undergrowth cut. I'll admit I have the same problem just behind my house because I want the Red Cedar Trees to grow up giving me a buffer between me and my neighbors. That is one reason we like this place being in the woods, nice for being shaded and cool but does have its downfalls.

Rockpile

[paquebot]

Wildfires are not new. They could not happen until about 360 million years ago due to lack of oxygen in the Earth's air. In past 200 years, only 3 have been 3 million acres or more in North America. They were 1825, 1910, and 1950. I suspect that they definitely warmed their part of the globe!

Martin

[bluemingidiot]

Or they could have sent enough ash aloft to cool the rest of the world.

[Deleted]

Experts say the size of the blaze, along with an increase in the number of wildfires in the U.S., are evidence of global warming.

It's true it's a very huge fire but I wouldn't attribute it's size alone as evidence of global warming.  Although there are many other events (and fires) going on in the world that are evidence of global warming, in this case the experts were forgetting to take something important about this particular fire's location into consideration. 

Where that fire is located in northern Alberta there is a lot of soft, loose bitumen particles (oil sand) mixed in naturally with the surface ground's organic materials and soils for several hundreds of miles and miles around throughout the northern regions.  Bitumen burns and smoulders a long time because of the fossil oil in it so the burning bitumen particles in the soil helps to fuel and expand the size of the fires across the ground and into the trees for many miles.  It also makes it a lot harder for ground crews to control or direct the ground fires with fire breaks dug into the ground because the bitumen in the surface soil still burns anyway.   So even where there are fire breaks dug into the ground, and tree fires may have burned themselves out and expired, the ground still continues to burn and spread across the ground for a long time afterwards and as it spreads it starts new tree fires.

And yes, the ground and vegetation is very dry because of climate change and the exceptionally dry, warmer winters for the past few years in the north but the surface bitumen is a major player contributing to the sizes of the fires up there.


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