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Siberian Fire and Flood Apocalypse

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The sun looks impressive, it is terrible, it is red, even during a day. Siberian sky has a steel color.

https://biwork.ru/uploads/images_07-2019/images/7jzR0S33.png

https://biwork.ru/news/adernoe-leto-samye-zlovesie-snimki-sm...

This is terrible. Russia is going to lose a pretty substantial chunk of its forests if there are no heavy rains soon. We've had very high levels of air pollution for the last few days here in Kazakhstan, with visibility levels of a few hundreds of meters. I mean, how many trees do you have to burn for the air to be so bad more than a thousand kilometers away?

Imagine we managed to be better than the fire and touch an international community faster, then its smoke will did, could such a level of attention change the situation and and push government(s) to use some kind of aviation to extinguish the fire?

The rain is the only hope...

Thanks for sharing. I am in NW Montana and saw the sun like this for the first time a few days ago, I'm not from here.

We have had an unseasonably wet summer thus far, which I understand from the ecologists around me here means there will be more dry brush when the dry season is fully in force, and the fires will likely become more pronounced than usual.

It's absolutely terrifying to know that this is going on, just across the pond. There are usually a lot more fires here, we've been lucky so far this year. (I myself am from Western NY, where we say "we'll gladly take the snow, if it means there are no wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, ...")

Frankly, I have never seen before such a sun during an entire day, and in now it lasts for a several weeks! It is very strange, especially when main news channels says almost nothing about the situation.

Some more links.

Online co2 monitoring map https://www.windy.com/-CO-concentration-cosc?cosc,57.744,96....

Petition (on russian) to introduce a region-wise emergency with more than half million supporters http://www.change.org/p/требуем-ввести-режим-чс-на-всей-терр...

The Nulschool earth weather/climate visualiser is also useful.

PM2.5: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/particulates/surface/l...

CO: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/ove...

SO2: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/ove...

Indeed!

Something also happens at the east coast of US. Is it a usual level of air pollution at that period?

NYC. Yes.

There's a calendar date selector which shows history. NYC, Chicago, and LA are strong CO emitters. SO2 is emitted by coal-fired pwerplants, ships (you can literally trace out shipping routes), and volcanos.

Sometimes our planet reminds me an infant with a fever.

It'll be over it soon.

I hope so. Some people talk about singularity, others speculates about a great collapse. Maybe thes two just are different names of the one thing? Two sides of the same coin?

I think not, and I hope that we will find a cure and come back to the point of balance.

> ‘We can only pray now,” said one campaigner pointing to a risk of a dam burst on the Solzana River where a bride had been swept away already.

I'm really hoping it's a bridge that was swept away. That's obviously still terrible, but not quite as tragic.

I hope the “Russian Maldives” thing is getting to people and the IG wedding photo crowd is learning their lesson

> Almost 3 million hectares on fire, including Arctic, with fumes having hit area larger than European Union.

I always have a hard time making sense of very large numbers like this, especially in units that I'm not particularly familiar with. So I checked and noticed that this is about a state of Massachusetts. The area on fire is one Massachusetts.

The area with ashes and smoke instead of usual air is several times larger... It covers Siberian part of Russia, Kazakhstan an probabaly China and Mongolia.

Certainly, such wildfire events are not new as we can read from https://www.stolenhistory.org/threads/what-happened-to-the-s...

But it is scary anyway.

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