Wildfires in Canada have burned an enormous swath of land and forced thousands from their homes, prompting firefighters from across the globe to descend on the country to help douse the flames.
Source: Wildfires in Canada Have Already Burned 10 Times More Land Than Usual
bad news and all, but bravo! to the folks at Bloomberg for giving us the context we need. i don’t evenneed to read the story to get a good idea how bad this season is. Contrast this to the utterly meaningless TWN graphic:
unless i have a working knowledge of the average # of fires typical in these regions at this time of the year (note also the very common lack of a date, so I have no idea when this is when I am seeing this on other media, not live like here), this graphics tell me nothing. might even be a good year?
but need to check this against other available stats? for instance, here’s something from CNFDB:
fta: “The scorched area is 2.7 million hectares (6.7 million acres) in size, or the equivalent of more than 5 million football fields, government officials told reporters Thursday. That’s more than 10 times the average area typically burned by this time of year over the past decade”
a quick look at that graph suggests ~4.5Mha average last 10 years, so the article is suspect; but then this is just june beginning, so need to know how much fires happen as the dsummer progresses.
covid-19-related… is the very small burnage in 2020 a result of pandemic stay-at-home? if so, this further bolster the idea that most of these fires are human-caused, in which case we can stop most of them by not being aqn idiot, as the NB premiere said.
2023-06-06 – Here’s how much earth Canada’s wildfires may scorch this year
going to be bad, already over 1/2 of a typical year, but not likely to be 10x worse than normal. maybe/prob exceeds worst in past ~20 years.
