DoomsdaysCW<p>Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a></p><p>by Stephen Pyne, The Conversation, January 22, 2025</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngeles</span></a> is burning, but it isn't alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colorado</span></a>, the southern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Appalachians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Appalachians</span></a> and the island of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maui</span></a>, along with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Portugal</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greece</span></a>. What wasn't burned was smoked in.</p><p>"Is this another case of a future not only dire but strange, without a narrative to join past to present or an analog for what is to come?</p><p>"I'm a historian of fire, and my reply is that we have both a narrative and an analog. The narrative is the unbroken saga of humanity and fire, a companionship that extends through all our existence as a species. The analog is that humanity's fire practices have become so vast, especially in recent centuries, that we are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age."</p><p>[...]</p><p>Welcome to the Pyrocene</p><p>"Widen the aperture a bit, and we can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, complete with the pyric equivalent of ice sheets, pluvial lakes, periglacial outwash plains, mass extinctions and sea-level changes. It's an epoch in which fire is both prime mover and principal expression.</p><p>"Humanity's firepower underpins the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropocene</span></a>, which is the outcome not just of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anthropogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropogenic</span></a> meddling but of a particular kind of meddling, made possible by humans' species monopoly over fire. Even climate history has become a subset of fire history.</p><p>"Fires in living landscapes, fires burning lithic landscapes—the interaction of these two realms of fire has not been much studied. It's been enough of a stretch to fully include human fire practices within traditional ecology. Yet humans—the keystone species for fire on Earth—are merging the two arenas of earthly burning with a give and take that is reshaping the planet in what resembles a slow-motion <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ragnarok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ragnarok</span></a>.</p><p>"Add up all the effects, direct and indirect: the ice driven off by fire, the areas burning, the biogeographical <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/migrations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrations</span></a> as biotas move to accommodate changed conditions, the collateral impacts with damaged <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/watersheds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>watersheds</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/airsheds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>airsheds</span></a>, the unraveling of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a>, the pervasive power of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RisingSeaLevels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RisingSeaLevels</span></a>, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassExtinction</span></a>, the disruption of human life and habitats. The result is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pyrogeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pyrogeography</span></a> that looks eerily like an ice age for fire. You have a maturing Pyrocene.</p><p>"If you doubt it, just ask California."</p><p>Full article (it's a good read):<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-human-era-uncontrolled-pyrocene.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-01-human-er</span><span class="invisible">a-uncontrolled-pyrocene.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfires</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UncontrolledFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UncontrolledFires</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HistoryOfFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfFire</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PyroceneEra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PyroceneEra</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ControlledBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ControlledBurning</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>Not just human health! The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Toxic</span></a> Blend of LA’s Urban <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WildfireSmoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildfireSmoke</span></a> Will Have Lasting Health Consequences </p><p>Los Angeles residents are breathing bits of "cars, metal pipes, plastics."<br> <br>By Zoya Teirstein, January 22, 2025</p><p>“These fires are different from previous quote-unquote ‘wildfires,’ because there are so many structures that burned,” said Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. 'Everything in the households got burned — cars, metal pipes, plastics.'</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildfiresmoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfiresmoke</span></a> is toxic. Burning trees and shrubs produce very fine <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/particulatematter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>particulatematter</span></a>, known by the shorthand PM 2.5, which burrow deep into the lungs and can even infiltrate the bloodstream, causing cold- and flu-like symptoms in the short term, and heart disease, lung cancer, and other chronic issues over time. </p><p>"But the fires that raced through Los Angeles burned thousands of homes, schools, historic buildings, and even medical clinics, blanketing the city in thick smoke. For several days after the first fire started, the city’s air quality index, or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AQI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AQI</span></a>, exceeded 100, the threshold, typically seen during wildfires, at which air becomes unhealthy to breathe for children, the elderly, and those with asthma. In some parts of the city, the AQI reached 500, a number rarely seen and always hazardous for everyone. </p><p>"At the moment, air pollution experts know how much smoke fills the air. That’s shown improvement in recent days. But they don’t know what’s in it. 'What are the chemical mixtures in this smoke?' asked Kai Chen, an environmental scientist at the Yale School of Public Health. 'In addition to fine particulate matter, there are potentially other hazardous and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carcinogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carcinogenic</span></a> organic compounds — gas pollutants, trace metals, and microplastics.'</p><p>"Previous research shows that the spikes in unhealthy air quality seen during such events lead to higher rates of hospitalizations for issues like asthma, and even contribute to heart attacks among those with that chronic disease. A 2024 study on the long-term effects of smoke exposure in California showed that particulate matter from wildfires in the state from 2008 to 2018 contributed to anywhere from 52,000 to 56,000 premature deaths. A health assessment of 148 firefighters who worked the Tubbs Fire, which burned more than 36,000 acres in Northern California in 2017 and destroyed an unusually high number of structures, found elevated levels of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a> known as forever chemicals, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeavyMetals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeavyMetals</span></a>, and flame retardants in their blood and urine.</p><p>"The L.A. County Department of Public Health has formally urged people to stay inside and wear masks to protect themselves from windblown toxic dust and ash. Air quality measurements don’t take these particles into account, which means the air quality index doesn’t reveal the extent of contaminants in the air. </p><p>"Zhu and her colleagues have been collecting samples of wildfire smoke in neighborhoods near the fires. It’ll be months before that data is fully analyzed, but Zhu suspects she will find a dangerous mix of chemicals, including, potentially, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asbestos</span></a> and lead — materials used in many buildings constructed before the 1970s. </p><p>"The risk will linger even after the smoke clears. The plumes that wafted over the landscape will deposit chemicals into drinking <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> supplies and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminate</span></a># soil. When rains do come, they’ll wash <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicAsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicAsh</span></a> into streams and across the land, said Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, an environmental engineer and interim dean of the University of Colorado Boulder environmental engineering program. 'There’s a lot of manmade materials that are now being combusted. The potential is there for contamination,' he said, noting that little research on how toxic ash and other byproducts of wildfires in urban areas currently exists. 'What we don’t have a lot of information on is what happens now.'</p><p>"After the Camp Fire razed Paradise, California, in 2018, water utilities found high levels of volatile organic compounds [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VOCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOCs</span></a>] in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrinkingWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrinkingWater</span></a>. Similar issues have arisen in places like Boulder County, Colorado, where the Marshall Fire destroyed nearly 1,000 structures in 2021, Rosario-Ortiz said, though the presence of a contaminant in a home doesn’t necessarily mean it will be present in high levels in the water. Still, several municipal water agencies in Los Angeles issued preemptive advisories urging residents not to drink tap water in neighborhoods near the Palisades and Eaton fires. It’ll be weeks before they know exactly what’s in the water. </p><p>"As wildfires grow ever more intense and encroach upon urban areas, cities and counties must be prepared to monitor the health impacts and respond to them. 'This is the first time I’ve ever even witnessed or heard anything like this,' said Zhu, who raised her daughter in Los Angeles and has lived there for decades, said. 'Even being in the field studying wildfires and air quality impacts, I never imagined that a whole neighborhood, a whole community in Palisades, would burn down.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-toxic-blend-of-las-urban-wildfire-smoke-will-have-lasting-health-consequences/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=flipboard_rss&utm_campaign=znetwork" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-t</span><span class="invisible">oxic-blend-of-las-urban-wildfire-smoke-will-have-lasting-health-consequences/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=flipboard_rss&utm_campaign=znetwork</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicMaterials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicMaterials</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDisaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDisaster</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDamage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PyroceneEra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PyroceneEra</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>New Fast-Spreading <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfire</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngelesCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngelesCounty</span></a> Prompts Evacuations </p><p>Story by Ben Fritz, Victoria Albert, Alexa Corse, January 22, 2025</p><p>SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — "A fast-spreading wildfire sparked in northern Los Angeles County, prompting renewed fears of death and destruction in a region already decimated by historic wildfires this month.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hughes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hughes</span></a> fire, which broke out north of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SantaClarita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SantaClarita</span></a> in the Castaic, Calif., area earlier Wednesday, has scorched more than 9,400 acres and is 0% contained, officials said. Evacuation orders have been issued for some 31,000 people, and an additional 23,000 were told to prepare to evacuate.</p><p>"No lives have been lost or structures reported damaged in the blaze, which is being fought by some 4,000 firefighters.</p><p>"Castaic is a remote, unincorporated part of northern Los Angeles County with a lake that draws many visitors in the summer. It has a population of about 19,000, but is close to the city of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SantaClarita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SantaClarita</span></a>, home to about 224,000 people and the Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park.</p><p>"At a press conference Wednesday evening, local officials speaking in front of large plumes of gray smoke said winds weren’t as strong as during the infernos two weeks ago, allowing them to drop tens of thousands of gallons of retardant from the sky. In addition, firefighters from across the U.S. and overseas have surged to L.A. this month and were able to deploy quickly.</p><p>“The situation remains dynamic and the fire remains a difficult one to contain, although we are getting the upper hand,” said Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Maroni."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/fast-spreading-wildfire-in-los-angeles-county-prompts-evacuations/ar-AA1xFZqo?cvid=30c5303289c749e2b2978dbfbff9d0d1&ei=47" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/weather/topstori</span><span class="invisible">es/fast-spreading-wildfire-in-los-angeles-county-prompts-evacuations/ar-AA1xFZqo?cvid=30c5303289c749e2b2978dbfbff9d0d1&ei=47</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CaliforniaFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CaliforniaFires</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PyroceneEra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PyroceneEra</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>Manjula Martin “The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History.” (2024)<br><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sadness-and-strange-beauty-on-manjula-martins-the-last-fire-season/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lareviewofbooks.org/article/sa</span><span class="invisible">dness-and-strange-beauty-on-manjula-martins-the-last-fire-season/</span></a></p><p>2020 Conflagration*<br>“ Nearly 9,900 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> burned 4.3 million acres in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> 2020, twice the previous record.”<br><a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/californias-2020-wildfire-season-numbers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ucdavis.edu/climate/news/calif</span><span class="invisible">ornias-2020-wildfire-season-numbers</span></a></p><p>* Etymology: Latin conflagrant-, conflagrans, present participle of conflagrare to burn, from com- + flagrare to burn — <br>First Known Use: circa 1656</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ManjulaMartin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManjulaMartin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fireseason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fireseason</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sonoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sonoma</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>“What scene are you into?”<br>“Let me take you baby <br> On a scenic tour” <br> “What’s my cene? “</p><p>“ I have long regarded all of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Holocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holocene</span></a> as an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropocene</span></a> & now regard the Anthropocene as a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.stephenpyne.com/disc.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">stephenpyne.com/disc.htm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chthulucene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chthulucene</span></a> epoch: human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices.<br><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dukeupress.edu/staying-with-th</span><span class="invisible">e-trouble</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capitalocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalocene</span></a> <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalocene" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalo</span><span class="invisible">cene</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropocene</span></a> <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropo</span><span class="invisible">cene</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Holocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holocene</span></a> <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
anlomedad<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://snac2.popolon.org/Popolon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Popolon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>yogthos</span></a></span> </p><p>Maybe, all this tragedy in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/LAfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LAfires</span></a> has one silver lining: <br>rich people were hit. <br>Rich means influential in the USA. <br>Maybe, now they raise their voices loud enough so that the USA gets her act together and sufficiently acts on <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> . <br> Maybe now they realize that global heating not a slow-burning thing they can outrun by their financial means. <br>Maybe now they realize that they depend on functioning societies across all income groups and globally. </p><p>Fortune's article above links to the original article by AccuWeather with the damage estimate of US$ 150bn . <br>They describe the criteria for their estimate. And those sound pretty holistic. <br>Although still based on the official estimate for very low numbers of destroyed structures, 10k.<br>So the 150bn are likely to increase. Gruesome. <br>But re-building is good for GDP, as economists would see it. The <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> is the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/EconObscene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconObscene</span></a> <br> <br><a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/press/media-advisory-accuweather-increases-estimate-of-total-damage-and-economic-loss-ascatastrophic-wildfires-in-southern-california-continue-to-ravage-the-los-angeles-area-updated-preliminary-estimate-i/1732268" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">accuweather.com/en/press/media</span><span class="invisible">-advisory-accuweather-increases-estimate-of-total-damage-and-economic-loss-ascatastrophic-wildfires-in-southern-california-continue-to-ravage-the-los-angeles-area-updated-preliminary-estimate-i/1732268</span></a></p>
LoupiotNoir<p>Un feu ravage la banlieue de Los Angeles, entre <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Eaton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eaton</span></a> et <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palisades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palisades</span></a>.</p><p>Des scènes de chaos et destruction massive, les pompiers sont débordés et le feu est incontrôlable.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyroc%C3%A8ne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocène</span></a></p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-southern-california-santa-ana-winds-b565a3bd043d6444820f1571b2307bf1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/wildfire-so</span><span class="invisible">uthern-california-santa-ana-winds-b565a3bd043d6444820f1571b2307bf1</span></a></p>
fluids_guru<p>As Australian country is once again impacted by fire, it’s worth reading this 2015 article which was the first attributed use of the word ‘Pyrocene’</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-humans-made-fire-and-fire-made-us-human" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-humans-made</span><span class="invisible">-fire-and-fire-made-us-human</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WildFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildFire</span></a></p>
Dr Micha Campbell<p>I'm very pleased to be co-convening this proposed session at <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EGU25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EGU25</span></a> with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@Geo_Juv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Geo_Juv</span></a></span> and others - "CL1.2.12<br>Using proxy data, observations, and modeling to understand vegetation-wildfire-climate interactions during the past, present, and future." We look forward to your submissions, and catching up in Vienna! </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfire</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Bushfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bushfire</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fire</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/palaeofire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palaeofire</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paleofire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleofire</span></a></p>
Pauline von Hellermann<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@aehdeschaine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aehdeschaine</span></a></span> yes.. we relly have entered the <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a></p>
John Englart<p>Mid August Winter <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bushfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bushfire</span></a>: Unrelenting bushfire fight continues for third straight day<br>Parts of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Queensland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queensland</span></a> Western Downs remain in the grips of an enormous blaze, squeezing firefighting resources to the brink.</p><p>Will this summer be like 2019/20 <a href="https://c.im/tags/wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildfire</span></a> season? This is the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> driven by the <a href="https://c.im/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theage.com.au/environment/weather/unrelenting-bushfire-fight-continues-for-third-straight-day-20240818-p5k38m.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theage.com.au/environment/weat</span><span class="invisible">her/unrelenting-bushfire-fight-continues-for-third-straight-day-20240818-p5k38m.html</span></a></p>
Shantell Powell<p>I just learned that instead of focusing all efforts on critical pieces of community infrastructure in Jasper – firefighters have been re-directed to save the Trans Mountain pipeline.</p><p>Here’s a petition to make big oil foot the bill for the climate catastrophe they are causing. <a href="https://act.leadnow.ca/Big-Oil-MTP/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">act.leadnow.ca/Big-Oil-MTP/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jasper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jasper</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JasperFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JasperFire</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/petition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petition</span></a></p><p>(For those who snark at petition sites, you can use an email account you make specifically for such things)</p>
Shantell Powell<p>I used to visit Jasper as a kid. It’s a gorgeous town. I hope the rain comes and helps the workers save the area. <a href="https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/jasper-townsite-cleared-wildfire-evacuation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">edmontonjournal.com/news/local</span><span class="invisible">-news/jasper-townsite-cleared-wildfire-evacuation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JasperFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JasperFire</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CanadaWildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanadaWildfires</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a></p>
fluids_guru<p>New study assessing future bushfire risk in Australia <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-06-19/australian-bushfires-could-be-more-intense-climate-change/103975266" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/science/2024-0</span><span class="invisible">6-19/australian-bushfires-could-be-more-intense-climate-change/103975266</span></a></p>
Dr Micha Campbell<p>Nice new paper from Danielle Udy reconstructing the fire weather index for Eastern Australia using the Law Dome ice core. Recent changes in FFDI are unprecented in the palaeo record...</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/palaeoclimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palaeoclimate</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FireWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FireWeather</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildfire</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fire</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/antarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antarctica</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01470-z" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s43247-024</span><span class="invisible">-01470-z</span></a></p>
Pauline von Hellermann<p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a> We Are Living in the Pyrocene—At Our Peril.</p><p>Ancient prophecies of worlds destroyed by fire are becoming realities. How will we respond?</p><p>"Mythology has morphed into ecology. We’re witnessing a slow-motion Ragnarok—a story from Norse mythology in which a great battle burns the world. Climate history is becoming a subnarrative of fire history". </p><p>By Steve Pyne, a historical ecologist working on fire. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/HistoricalEcology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalEcology</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-are-living-in-the-pyrocene-at-our-peril/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/we-are-living-in-the-pyrocene-at-our-peril/</span></a></p>
Shantell Powell<p>I went for a walk today and saw pussywillows blooming. That shouldn’t be happening for months. <a href="https://c.im/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PussyWillow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PussyWillow</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a></p>
Shantell Powell<p>I managed to get my workout in before the air turned poison again. Yay? <a href="https://c.im/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RespiratoryDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RespiratoryDisease</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CanadaWildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanadaWildfires</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>How it works:</p><p>⓵ Capitalists make huge profits from fossil fuels.<br>⓶ Burning fossil fuels causes global warming.<br>⓷ Global warming dries out forests.<br>⓸ Wildfires destroy forests at record rates.<br>⓹ Carbon emissions from wildfires cause even more global warming.<br>_________________________</p><p>Canada’s wildfires have broken yet another record — this time, for heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p>This year, climate change has driven Canada’s most severe wildfire season on record. Wildfires in Canada have already emitted more than double the previous record annual amount of emissions. </p><p>Greg Evans, an air pollution and public health expert at the University of Toronto, said the emissions create a “feedback loop.”</p><p>“The additional release of carbon dioxide is going to result in additional warming, which results in additional drought and additional wildfires,” Evans said.</p><p>The devastating wildfires have burned some 30 million acres this year so far, incinerating an area larger than the size of Cuba or South Korea.</p><p>Enormous plumes of smoke have choked the air in Canada and neighboring United States, affecting more than 100 million people and at times disrupting flights and forcing the cancellation of outdoor events.</p><p>Besides warming the planet, wildfire emissions are also impacting human health. Evans said wildfires make people more susceptible to asthma attacks or heart attacks. He added long-term exposure to the smoke can also make people more vulnerable during periods of poor air quality in the future.</p><p>Evans added emissions, like the planet-warming gases from these wildfires, stick around in the atmosphere for 40 years.</p><p>“It’s so critical to start taking action now to turn it around,” Evans said. “This is something that our grandchildren will inherit. It's not like we can turn it off and it will all get better.”<br>_________________________</p><p>STORY 1 -- <a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/08/04/news/canadas-wildfire-emissions-smash-another-record" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nationalobserver.com/2023/08/0</span><span class="invisible">4/news/canadas-wildfire-emissions-smash-another-record</span></a></p><p>STORY 2 -- <a href="https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Fcanada-wildfire-smoke-smashes-emission-record-monitor%2F" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2F</span><span class="invisible">www.rawstory.com%2Fcanada-wildfire-smoke-smashes-emission-record-monitor%2F</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CO2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CO2</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emissions</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>It's not complicated. Anyone can understand that when forests burn, it's a LOSE-LOSE proposition for the climate and the environment. </p><p>We lose trees and grasslands and sometimes also peat that have been storing carbon, AND we send that previously stored carbon into the atmosphere, thereby sharply increasing CO2 emissions, which then push temperatures up even higher, drying out more of the forests and raising the risk of lightning storms which will ignite *more* fires — a massively destructive vicious cycle.</p><p>"Wildfires are set to DOUBLE Canada's climate emissions this year"<br><a href="https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffinancialpost.com%2Fcommodities%2Fagriculture%2Fwildfires-double-canada-climate-emissions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2F</span><span class="invisible">financialpost.com%2Fcommodities%2Fagriculture%2Fwildfires-double-canada-climate-emissions</span></a></p><p>It's almost impossible to imagine anything *worse* than burning boreal forests, but that's what is happening, both in Canada and in Siberia. And STILL we keep on drilling for more oil in Alaska, mining the tar sands in Alberta, and fracking the hell out of everywhere else. Why? Because capitalism! 💰💰💰 </p><p>MORE ON BOREAL FORESTS -- <br>"Two of the countries at greatest risk are Russia and Canada, and not coincidentally, these are two places where the fossil fuel industry is making bad conditions even worse."<br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/110423387240605334" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">climatejustice.social/@breadan</span><span class="invisible">dcircuses/110423387240605334</span></a></p><p>MORE ON FRACKING -- <br>"12 US states where fracking is most prevalent"<br><a href="https://stacker.com/science/12-states-where-fracking-most-prevalent" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stacker.com/science/12-states-</span><span class="invisible">where-fracking-most-prevalent</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CO2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CO2</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emissions</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a></p>
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