80 major fires are now raging across 13
u.s states in Oregon, the nation's largest active wildfire has burned about 600
square miles or 1500 square kilometers prompting thousands of evacuations over
2 000 firefighters are tackling the so-called bootleg fire.
One of the most important fires
within the state's history well here you'll see a time the lapse from a NASA satellite which shows the smoke moving from the West Coast traveling across the country the smoke is gray while the clouds are white the fires are so
intense that health agencies on the u.s East Coast are warning that poor air
quality from the smoke poses a hazard on North America correspondent four a thousand kilometers away hazy skies in my city caused by smoke from the western
wildfires public health experts have warned that folks with breathing problems
should avoid being outside during the center of the day this monstrous fire is
partly responsible for spreading rapidly through forest land about 500
kilometers southeast of portland in Oregon the bootleg fire has been burning
for 2 weeks and has destroyed a neighborhood larger than the town of Los
Angeles.
By extreme heat strong winds and years
of drought, this mega-fire is ravaging the forest with an intensity rarely seen
before the air is so hot and therefore the blaze is so large that it's creating
it's own weather system that has fire tornadoes over 2000 firefighters are
tackling this place but the flames are so intense they're often forced to
retreat from the front lines this hearth is spreading out of control near the
California Nevada border had been started by lightning and is rapidly
ballooning in size.
This year five times as many acres have
burned in California compared with an equivalent a period in 2020 l. a. well
President Biden has made tackling global climate change a key pillar of his
presidency and his climate czar the previous u.s secretary of state and
presidential contender John Kerry has been in London within the week calling on
governments to intensify and set bold targets to avoid even worse impacts from
global climate change in the coming years speaking.
The lowest level of water since 1937 there is enough indicators that folks are working through and suffering through farms that are flooded crops that do not grow anymore in one place.
The world meteorological organization which they were confirming it's confirmed that extreme weather events are indeed accelerating can all of them be attributed to the global climate change that's not clear a number of them might be a number of them won't be and scientists tend to avoid talking about a specific event but large was projected and that long-term projection and that is why there's this increasing concern and us and with these wildfires.
Increasing accelerated impacts whether
it's a wildfire heatwaves floods and on and forth and therefore the question is
can we cope scientists also are saying that aside from cutting down greenhouse
gases mitigation so to mention we also got to believe adapting to the present
inevitable impacts that particularly when these impacts are accelerating can we
have the means can we have the technology does one have the plans.
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