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To: Brumar89 who wrote (935634)	5/18/2016 11:28:49 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1575637

"Spiegel Journalist Douses Alarmist Claim Alberta Fires Caused By Climate Change" Main cause: El Niño induced weather LMAO. Like this El Nino isn't influenced by climate change? Oy. Can people really be that dumb? Obviously. That was a stunning display of ignorance. Not included was the neutral record breaking year of '14, the EN record breaking year of '15, and the off the chart record-to-date of '16. Like 80 degree weather and no snow cover in early May isn't warming? = Global Warming to Spur More Fires in Alaska, in Turn Causing More Warming Dangerous cycle includes more tundra blazes and threats to the boreal forests, as well as the people of Alaska, new research shows. insideclimatenews.org Nasty bad fire day in Siberia, too. This image, showing Lake Baikal and areas east of there, is about 500 miles wide. Lots of big fires. go.nasa.gov May 17 Extreme Fires in the Context of Human-Caused Climate Change Overall, more than 530,000 hectares have now burned throughout Canada. This total is more than 24 times the amount of land consumed in fires by this time last year. During the 20th Century, large May burn extents of the kind Canada is experiencing during 2016 were unheard of. For much of Canada — May tended to be a cool month featuring temperatures in the 40s, 50s and 60s (F). Not the 70s and 80s (F) that have tended to crop up so frequently this year. Fires tended to be sparse and small — if they ignited at all. But the heat, a growing number of dead trees, and a thawing zone of carbon-rich and flammable permafrost have all added to the fire danger. Evidence that a very rapid pace of warming and related damage to Canada’s forests is having an extraordinary and dangerous impact. Over the coming seven days, abnormal 60-70 degree (F) temperatures are expected to expand throughout even the far northwestern regions of Canada — reaching all the way to where the Arctic Ocean meets the Mackenzie Delta and spiking fire hazards within that thawing permafrost zone. Such huge extents of extreme fire hazard over northern and far-northern regions that typically experience much, much cooler weather is a feature that is absolutely consistent with effects resulting from human-forced warming. A warming that continues to be made worse by the extraction of carbon-based fuels like those unearthed at the tar sands facilities now endangered by the very fires of climate change they helped to ignite. robertscribbler.com