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Son of Jamin said:
I wonder why so many countries in the EU are adamant about the climate crisis, but at the same time move away from nuclear energy?

I saw that the import of LNG gas from Russia to China he EU increased a lot in 2024.
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They are moving towards solar and wind , it's cheaper and doesn't take ten to twenty years to come online

And they are still building nuclear plants
 
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Humans being the only know “intelligent” life in at least our little corner of the galaxy taking care of the planet and in turn the survival of humanity should be the entire world’s number one priority.
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Nah, it's "climate alarmism"

Global warming can't be real because Greta Thunberg is annoying and Al Gore flies in private planes.
 

‘Pray for rain’: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to​

Canada’s response to the extreme weather threat is being upended as the traditional epicentre of the blazes shifts as the climate warms

Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Road closures, evacuations, travel chaos and stern warnings from officials have become fixtures of Canada’s wildfire season. But as the country goes through its second-worst burn on record, the blazes come with a twist: few are coming from the western provinces, the traditional centre of destruction.

Instead, the worst of the fires have been concentrated in the prairie provinces and the Atlantic region, with bone-dry conditions upending how Canada responds to a threat that is only likely to grow as the climate warms.

Experts say the shift serves as a stark reminder that the risk of disaster is present across the thickly forested nation.

In recent weeks, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes due to the wildfires. Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been the worst hit, covering more than 60% of the area burned in Canada. But the fires have also seized strained resources in Atlantic Canada, where officials in Newfoundland and Labrador are struggling to battle out-of-control blazes.

In response to the crisis, the Newfoundland premier, John Hogan, said on Wednesday morning he would temporarily ban off-road vehicles in forested areas because the province “simply cannot afford any further risks, given the number of out-of-control wildfires we have”.


The ban follows a similar move by Nova Scotia, where a 15-hectare (37-acre) out-of-control fire is burning outside the provincial capital, Halifax. In addition to barring vehicles in wooded areas, Nova Scotia officials so shut down hiking, camping and fishing in forests, a decision reflecting the troubling fact that nearly all fires in the province are started by humans.

“Conditions are really dry, there’s no rain in sight, the risk is extremely high in Nova Scotia,” the province’s premier, Tim Houston, told reporters. “I’m happy to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to protect people, to protect property and try to just get through this fire season and really just pray for rain.”

Fires have even erupted in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region, a collection of rural communities less than 100 miles (160km) north of Toronto that are a popular summer destination for residents of Canada’s largest city.

For a country of sprawling landmass, fires have long been a common feature of the hot spring, summer and autumn. But for the last century, a mix of geography, climate and industry meant that the biggest and hottest fires – and the vast majority of destruction – have been concentrated in Canada’s western provinces.

That changed in 2023 when Canada had its worst fire season on record and the thick haze of smoke blanketed the US.

“We had fire everywhere. We had evacuations everywhere. We had smoke at a scale that was remarkable,” said Paul Kovacs, the executive director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction at Western University. “And so for the first time, we had a different thought about wildfires as a country. With all of the smoke, it became a global conversation. This year is repeating all of that. This is a national issue. This can show up anywhere.”

Kovacs, whose organisation focuses largely on preventing structural loss, said more buildings had been destroyed this year compared with 2023, and he warned that a majority of the residents of the most fire-prone parts of the country, such as British Columbia and Alberta, had not yet taken steps to protect or “harden” their homes from fire risk.

He hopes that a broader national recognition of fire risk spurs people in other parts of the country to reassess how vulnerable their home or business might be to a fast-moving blaze.

“That’s the behavioural change we’re hoping to see next, because there will be many years of fires to come,” he said. “The size of the burned area will not go back to where things were 25 years ago. This is just our new reality and we need to be prepared. We need a change in mindset and a recognition that this can, and probably will, happen in so many parts of our country.”

Already, nearly 7.5m hectares (18.5m acres) have burned across Canada in 2025, far above the 10-year average.

Despite the national threat, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to reducing risk, said Jen Baron, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Wildfire Coexistence.

“British Columbia and Alberta have long been the poster children for this wildfire problem for a long time, but other regions are beginning to experience some of those same challenges,” she said. “This speaks to the pervasiveness of climate change: even if a location was relatively low fire risk in the past, with the extended droughts that we’re seeing, that’s no longer the case now and into the future.

“Even though some parts of the country are having a wet year on average, things across the board are still warmer and drier than they were in the past.”

That uncertainty has prompted a multimillion-dollar funding effort from the federal government to study risk and adaptation, because “there are very few parts of Canada that would be totally protected from wildfire”, Baron said.

With an international focus on wildfires, experts like Baron hope the recent years of immense blazes and choking smoke can spur a response that acknowledges the legacy of forestry industry practices, urban encroachment into the wilderness and the Indigenous stewardship of forests.

“We’re just starting to catch up to the scale of the problem,” she said. “Wildfire is a natural ecological process, but it’s become increasingly challenging to manage with changing climatic conditions.”


The concerns in Canada echo those emerging across the Atlantic as southern Europe grapples with one of its worst wildfire seasons in two decades.

In Spain, officials were scrambling on Sunday to contain 20 major wildfires. The prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said during a visit to the north-western region of Galicia: “There are still some challenging days ahead and, unfortunately, the weather is not on our side.”

After fires killed three people and burnt more than 115,000 hectares, Sánchez said his government would seek to put forward a “national pact” to deal with the climate emergency.

“We need to reflect deeply on how we can rethink our capabilities, not only in terms of responses but also in terms of preventing everything related to the climate emergency, whether it be fires, storms, or any other climate-related natural disaster,” he said.

In Portugal, the area burned by wildfires this year is 17 times higher than in 2024, at about 139,000 hectares, according to preliminary calculations by the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests. Across Europe, countries such as Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Albania have requested help from the EU’s firefighting force as exhausted officials battle forest fires, fuelled by record-breaking temperatures, dry conditions and strong winds.

In Canada, Baron said the mild nature of this year’s western fire season provided a glimpse into the country’s future.

“Instead of one big fire year every 15 or 20 years, every year will be big in some part of the country,” she said. “We really don’t know exactly how climate change is going to continue. It doesn’t drive things in linear ways. And we can’t predict where there’s going to be a drought next year. But it will be somewhere.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/17/new-canada-wildfires-locations
 
LeonardoBjj said:

‘Pray for rain’: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to​

Canada’s response to the extreme weather threat is being upended as the traditional epicentre of the blazes shifts as the climate warms

Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Road closures, evacuations, travel chaos and stern warnings from officials have become fixtures of Canada’s wildfire season. But as the country goes through its second-worst burn on record, the blazes come with a twist: few are coming from the western provinces, the traditional centre of destruction.

Instead, the worst of the fires have been concentrated in the prairie provinces and the Atlantic region, with bone-dry conditions upending how Canada responds to a threat that is only likely to grow as the climate warms.

Experts say the shift serves as a stark reminder that the risk of disaster is present across the thickly forested nation.

In recent weeks, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes due to the wildfires. Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been the worst hit, covering more than 60% of the area burned in Canada. But the fires have also seized strained resources in Atlantic Canada, where officials in Newfoundland and Labrador are struggling to battle out-of-control blazes.

In response to the crisis, the Newfoundland premier, John Hogan, said on Wednesday morning he would temporarily ban off-road vehicles in forested areas because the province “simply cannot afford any further risks, given the number of out-of-control wildfires we have”.


The ban follows a similar move by Nova Scotia, where a 15-hectare (37-acre) out-of-control fire is burning outside the provincial capital, Halifax. In addition to barring vehicles in wooded areas, Nova Scotia officials so shut down hiking, camping and fishing in forests, a decision reflecting the troubling fact that nearly all fires in the province are started by humans.

“Conditions are really dry, there’s no rain in sight, the risk is extremely high in Nova Scotia,” the province’s premier, Tim Houston, told reporters. “I’m happy to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to protect people, to protect property and try to just get through this fire season and really just pray for rain.”

Fires have even erupted in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region, a collection of rural communities less than 100 miles (160km) north of Toronto that are a popular summer destination for residents of Canada’s largest city.

For a country of sprawling landmass, fires have long been a common feature of the hot spring, summer and autumn. But for the last century, a mix of geography, climate and industry meant that the biggest and hottest fires – and the vast majority of destruction – have been concentrated in Canada’s western provinces.

That changed in 2023 when Canada had its worst fire season on record and the thick haze of smoke blanketed the US.

“We had fire everywhere. We had evacuations everywhere. We had smoke at a scale that was remarkable,” said Paul Kovacs, the executive director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction at Western University. “And so for the first time, we had a different thought about wildfires as a country. With all of the smoke, it became a global conversation. This year is repeating all of that. This is a national issue. This can show up anywhere.”

Kovacs, whose organisation focuses largely on preventing structural loss, said more buildings had been destroyed this year compared with 2023, and he warned that a majority of the residents of the most fire-prone parts of the country, such as British Columbia and Alberta, had not yet taken steps to protect or “harden” their homes from fire risk.

He hopes that a broader national recognition of fire risk spurs people in other parts of the country to reassess how vulnerable their home or business might be to a fast-moving blaze.

“That’s the behavioural change we’re hoping to see next, because there will be many years of fires to come,” he said. “The size of the burned area will not go back to where things were 25 years ago. This is just our new reality and we need to be prepared. We need a change in mindset and a recognition that this can, and probably will, happen in so many parts of our country.”

Already, nearly 7.5m hectares (18.5m acres) have burned across Canada in 2025, far above the 10-year average.

Despite the national threat, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to reducing risk, said Jen Baron, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Wildfire Coexistence.

“British Columbia and Alberta have long been the poster children for this wildfire problem for a long time, but other regions are beginning to experience some of those same challenges,” she said. “This speaks to the pervasiveness of climate change: even if a location was relatively low fire risk in the past, with the extended droughts that we’re seeing, that’s no longer the case now and into the future.

“Even though some parts of the country are having a wet year on average, things across the board are still warmer and drier than they were in the past.”

That uncertainty has prompted a multimillion-dollar funding effort from the federal government to study risk and adaptation, because “there are very few parts of Canada that would be totally protected from wildfire”, Baron said.

With an international focus on wildfires, experts like Baron hope the recent years of immense blazes and choking smoke can spur a response that acknowledges the legacy of forestry industry practices, urban encroachment into the wilderness and the Indigenous stewardship of forests.

“We’re just starting to catch up to the scale of the problem,” she said. “Wildfire is a natural ecological process, but it’s become increasingly challenging to manage with changing climatic conditions.”


The concerns in Canada echo those emerging across the Atlantic as southern Europe grapples with one of its worst wildfire seasons in two decades.

In Spain, officials were scrambling on Sunday to contain 20 major wildfires. The prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said during a visit to the north-western region of Galicia: “There are still some challenging days ahead and, unfortunately, the weather is not on our side.”

After fires killed three people and burnt more than 115,000 hectares, Sánchez said his government would seek to put forward a “national pact” to deal with the climate emergency.

“We need to reflect deeply on how we can rethink our capabilities, not only in terms of responses but also in terms of preventing everything related to the climate emergency, whether it be fires, storms, or any other climate-related natural disaster,” he said.

In Portugal, the area burned by wildfires this year is 17 times higher than in 2024, at about 139,000 hectares, according to preliminary calculations by the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests. Across Europe, countries such as Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Albania have requested help from the EU’s firefighting force as exhausted officials battle forest fires, fuelled by record-breaking temperatures, dry conditions and strong winds.

In Canada, Baron said the mild nature of this year’s western fire season provided a glimpse into the country’s future.

“Instead of one big fire year every 15 or 20 years, every year will be big in some part of the country,” she said. “We really don’t know exactly how climate change is going to continue. It doesn’t drive things in linear ways. And we can’t predict where there’s going to be a drought next year. But it will be somewhere.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/17/new-canada-wildfires-locations
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Furthermore we used to be able to share our fire fighting crews , when bad fires flared up in one area one province could help out another, hell one country could help another, we used to send fire crews and equipment all over and vice versa , that just doesn't happen anymore, there are fucking fires everywhere.

Fire season used to mean pretty much the summer , that is no longer the case

Fires are also more intense and spread much faster , that's due to multi year droughts and over all dryer conditions

Also some fires are overwintering, smouldering underground and flaring up again come spring

And it's only getting hotter
 
Why is climate changed not fixed yet ? I was told by the Liberals we can tax the weather until it cools down.
 
AnGrYcRoW said:
Furthermore we used to be able to share our fire fighting crews , when bad fires flared up in one area one province could help out another, hell one country could help another, we used to send fire crews and equipment all over and vice versa , that just doesn't happen anymore, there are fucking fires everywhere.

Fire season used to mean pretty much the summer , that is no longer the case

Fires are also more intense and spread much faster , that's due to multi year droughts and over all dryer conditions

Also some fires are overwintering, smouldering underground and flaring up again come spring

And it's only getting hotter
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- The dry seasons, make far harder to combat fires.
 
LeonardoBjj said:
- Because we cant undo two centuries of destruction in a year or two?
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My point is that taxing literally everything with a carbon tax creating massive price increases fueling a cost of living crisis in a country where according to all data is carbon negative.

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A pilot project has estimated emissions and removals of carbon dioxide in individual nations using satellite measurements.
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The government in Canada knows they are the reason why there is a new wildfire phenominon when they are poisoning the forests in order to promote the growing of certain types of trees for the sake of lumber supply

Could it be that the prevalence of wildfire in Canada and the dry conditions on the ground is due to the government spraying Glyphosate on the ground killing parts of the ecosystem to promote growth of the types of trees to be harvested for lumber ?

Would it not be an idea to hold off on these practices during and leading up to fire season ?






British Columbia’s war on aspen is fueling wildfires

For decades, B.C.’s forestry industry has used glyphosate herbicides to kill aspen and other deciduous trees, prioritizing conifers for profit—a practice critics say intensifies wildfire risks and depletes ecosystems.Ainslie Cruickshank reports for The Narwhal.In short:Glyphosate spraying in...
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Stop the Spray: Glyphosate, Forest Monoculture, and Fire | Watershed Sentinel %

Canada’s tree-farm forestry model drenches forests in glyphosate to kill off all species other than conifers – creating a huge fire risk.
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IARC Monograph on Glyphosate

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Is historically arid Beijing ready for a wetter future?​

By Laurie Chen

  • Beijing hit by 'once-a-century' floods three times since 2012
  • Experts say China's rain belt expanding northwards due to climate change
  • Beijing still lags in prioritising climate adaptation in projects
BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) - During last month's deadly floods in Beijing, rural hotel owner Cui Jian and his guests spent the night stranded on a rooftop in torrential rain before rescuers battled through metre-high mud and silt to get to them the next day.

Beijing's mountainous northern Huairou district and neighbouring Miyun district received a year's worth of rain in a single week, triggering flash floods that devastated entire villages and killed 44 people in the deadliest flood since 2012.

The authorities' most serious weather warning came too late for most villagers in Huairou, who were already asleep by the time it was issued.

"In the past, they closed scenic areas and campsites, evacuated tourists and relocated villagers. If you warn people in time, good, but if not, it's a natural disaster," said Cui, whose 10 properties in the same Huairou district village, which he had spent 35 million yuan ($4.87 million) renovating, were submerged.

The floods exposed weaknesses in the rural emergency response infrastructure for Beijing, whose urban core is surrounded by several rural districts.

But they also revealed how historically-dry Beijing, home to 22 million people, remains insufficiently prepared for what experts say will be an increasingly wet future. The Chinese capital has experienced three deluges since 2012 that forecasters said could only happen once every 100 years, and climate experts warn there is a growing risk of disasters on a previously unthinkable scale.

Chinese experts are increasingly calling for city planners to prioritise "ecological resilience" given the disastrous effects of climate change.
"The current understanding of the climate crisis and its future challenges is insufficient, which naturally leads to insufficient deployment and planning," said Zhou Jinfeng, Secretary-General of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation.

China's ministries of housing and environment, and the Beijing city government, did not respond to faxed requests for comment.

While two Beijing districts devastated by floods in 2023 have issued long-term reconstruction plans prioritising "climate-adaptive city construction" and proposing measures to improve rural flood control systems and upgrade infrastructure, the vast majority of recently-commissioned infrastructure projects in the capital do not prioritise climate adaptation in their plans.

A Chinese government database showed only three Beijing infrastructure projects in the past five years whose procurement tenders mentioned "ecological resilience", while several hundred tenders mentioning "climate change" were mostly related to research projects at state scientific institutes in Beijing.

Ecological resilience refers to measures such as restoring natural river embankments, reducing the use of concrete and other hard materials and excessive artificial landscaping, as well as increasing biodiversity, according to Zhou.

In a shift away from decades of breakneck urbanisation that propelled China's economic growth, a top-level urban planning meeting in July emphasised building "liveable, sustainable and resilient" cities.

Mid-July is typically when northern China's rainy season starts, but this year it had its earliest start since records began in 1961, while several Beijing rivers experienced their largest-ever recorded floods.

Citywide rainfall in June and July surged 75% from a year earlier, official data showed.

This is due to the "significant northward expansion of China's rain belt since 2011" linked to climate change, the director of China's National Climate Center told state-owned China Newsweek, marking a shift towards "multiple, long-term, sustained cycles of rainfall" in the traditionally arid north.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainabil...-arid-beijing-ready-wetter-future-2025-08-21/
 

Heatwave that fuelled deadly wildfires was Spain’s ‘most intense on record’​

Country’s weather agency says 10-day period from 8-17 August was hottest since at least 1950, as fires still rage

A 16-day heatwave Spain suffered this month was “the most intense on record”, the country’s state meteorological agency (AEMET) has said.

Provisional readings for the 3-18 August heatwave exceeded the last record, set in July 2022, and showed an average temperature 4.6C higher than for previous such phenomena, the agency said on X.


The August heatwave exacerbated tinderbox conditions in Spain that fuelled wildfires that continue to ravage parts of the north and west of the country.

More than 1,100 deaths in Spain have been linked to the heatwave, according to an estimate released on Tuesday by the Carlos III Health Institute.

Since it began its records in 1975, AEMET has registered 77 heatwaves in Spain, with six going 4C or more above the average – five of those since 2019.

Scientists say the climate crisis is driving longer, more intense and more frequent heatwaves worldwide.

AEMET said a 10-day period within the last heatwave, covering 8-17 August, was the hottest 10 consecutive days recorded in Spain since at least 1950.

The agency said it was “a scientific fact that current summers are hotter than in previous decades”.

It added: “Each summer is not always going to be hotter than the previous one, but there is a clear trend towards much more extreme summers. What is key is adapting to, and mitigating, climate change.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/24/heatwave-wildfires-spain-most-intense-on-record
 
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