Just a reminder that it’s still February, people.
Shit. I forgot to rake the state. Sorry everybody.
Come and rake it!
That only works in the forest. We have a prairie fire over here.
Second largest fire in Texas behind Greg Abbot himself. It would be third if Ted Cruz ever actually showed up for work.
Welcome to Climate Change, where massive wildfires in North America during winter become normalized.
Canada is gonna have a fun year WRT wildfires this year. Western Canada is still in the grips of a massive drought, we got only a fraction of the winter precipitation we needed, and a good chunk of that was in rain instead of the snow that would produce watershed runoff well into the summer.
And it’s probably going to be worse next year.
And the year after that.
And the year after that.
There is no “new normal” or return to the old normal without making a real effort to finally combat climate change. Things can - and will - just keep getting worse.
We are already dealing with Zombie Fires in western Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/wildfires-zombie-fires-canada-bc-alberta-1.7119851
