[Damn] Global Warming Fights Back: Burns Down Ft. McMurray, Canada

We are a legion of 7 billion fleas, OP. And the earth wants to be dipped. Let the earth die.

 

This is rather terrifying. Its been a while since a wildfire actually wiped out an entire city. Fort McMurray is going to get completely wiped out at this rate and it wont take very long. The airport, for example, is literally in the process of burning down right now.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FortMacFire?src=hash">#FortMacFire</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ymmfire?src=hash">#ymmfire</a> Appears to be at Fort McMurray Airport ... here's the webcam from last 6 hours until now <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ymm?src=hash">#ymm</a> <a href="https://t.co/bPnTakuJts">pic.twitter.com/bPnTakuJts</a></p>&mdash; Eric Zerkel (@EricZerkel) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricZerkel/status/728022842227367936">May 5, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Aren't there a sh-t ton of Muslims there?

 

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Rimrocker what's the status?

 

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Did they catch the arsonist? Or at least have any leads? It's unfortunate a whole town has to burn down due to criminal mischief.

 

i thought the culprit was global warming according to thread title

 

Sad thing is it wasn't even a real arsonist -- it was an arborist who planted a Mexican Fire-Plant out of season.

 

****ing NAFTA. (This is too soon, by the way.)

 

for perspective on size. Alberta premier says they've lost 90% of homes.

Houston:

Spoiler

NewYork:

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phew, thank goodness Katy is safe. Was planning to evacuate.

 

not sure what this has to do with global warming (psst it was re-named "climate change" since there was some cooling, too!) other than the fact that some hippies in Berkeley are probably smugly pleased that an oil sands town burned.

forest fires aren't exactly a new thing...

 

back on topic, where the eff is pretty boy Trudeau on this? How could he let an entire town get burned to the ground? Did he truly deploy all of Canada's resources to prevent this? This is a huge black mark in his early tenure.

 

Thanks, Trudeau.

 

Not sure what this is supposed to mean?

What I got out of those pictures is that I'm some how supposed to draw a comparison of a catastrophic loss of 90% of homes in a city of 60,000 vs an utterly unimaginable catastrophic loss of 90% of homes in cities of multimillions of people. Or is that just showing land area? That would make more sense...

I ask in all ignorance...sorry.

 

Crazy videos. Here's the last part of that video. Shows the size of the smoke / fire cloud when he makes it out.

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Date | 2016-05-07 21:00 UTC
Data | Wind + Carbon Monoxide Conc. @ Surface
5416 ppbv

Fort McMurray, Canada
57.18° N, 109.94° W ✕
255° @ 21 km/h

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Although the map display will surely change as time goes by....

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It's pretty crazy and feel very bad for all of those who lost their homes.

The smoke has blown even here to Minnesota and we've had air quality warnings because of it.