Deforestation, climate disruption and bushfires

'Unprecedented' Canadian wildfires made worse by climate change, scientists find
"It's going to get worse."

Australia is also likely to see 'more frequent and more severe extreme weather events' due to global warming. Scientists warn severe weather will get worse. During the Black Summer fires, Australia saw roughly the same number of fire-induced thunderstorms, known as pyrocumulonimbus, as seen in the country over several decades".
"One of the worst impacts of fires like those in Canada and during the Black Summer in Australia was the widespread impact on air quality. It's hard to adapt to — if the air we breathe isn't safe to breathe."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-23/research-shows-warmer-climate-made-canada-fires-worse/102759834

Deforestation and climate change
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/deforestation/

What is the scale of deforestation and its role in climate change?
"Land use change, principally deforestation, contributes 12–20% of global greenhouse gas emissions."
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/explainers/whats-redd-and-will-it-help-tackle-climate-change/

#smoke #pollution #deforestation #logging #bushfire #risks #FossilFuel #climate #pyrocumulonimbus #GreenhouseGas #emissions #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob

I no longer think #hurricanes are the most terrifying of #storms; not even close.

Because we #humans have pumped so much #CO2 (and #Methane) into the #atmosphere, we'll be seeing more storms like this, in more places.

"This is not planet #Earth as we found it. This is a new place—a #fire planet we have made, with an atmosphere more conducive to #combustion than at any time in the past 3 million years."

#Pyrocumulus #Pyrocumulonimbus #Pyrotornadogenesis #ClimateChange

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-worlds-first-wildfire-tornado-blazed-a-path-of-destruction-through-australia-180982309/

Reviewing the horrid global 2020 wildfire season

On December 31, 2019, one of the most intense #wildfire events in world history affected southeast #Australia, generating a massive fire-induced thunderstorm cloud called a #pyrocumulonimbus (#pyroCb). Chemical reactions within the bubble created a mini-ozone hole that depleted stratospheric #ozone by up to 100 Dobson units (over 30% of the total) at its center....

https://skepticalscience.com/reviewing-horrid-2020-wildfire-season.html

#ClimateCrisis #ExtremeWeather

The #bushfires in #Australia are so big they're generating their own #weather — '#pyrocumulonimbus' #thunderstorms that can #start more #fires

https://www.insider.com/australia-bushfires-generate-pyrocumulonimbus-thunderstorm-clouds-2019-12