I live 200km from the fires of Bordeaux and we still had a lot of smoke from those fires. I can't imagine how bad it is close to those fires. And with another heatwave hitting France today those fires won't stop anytime soon.
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Hope to see this happening to oil company buildings
Just look at satellite images of Russia.
And Iran, although the political implications aren't as obviously good (compared to Russia) as the ecological ones.
Not all of these clouds are wildfires.
Unless the sea is also on fire.
Just because the clouds are (almost) entirely over land and not the water doesn't necessarily mean they aren't clouds. I'm not a meteorologist so I can't explain why, but I'm aware that it's pretty normal for the cloud cover over the land and the sea to be different.
(Also, you can tell because smoke plumes definitely wouldn't be coming from the bay or its inlet, and they didn't blow there from the land to the east because as the real plumes show, the wind is blowing eastward.)
Just because the clouds are (almost) entirely over land and not the water doesn't necessarily mean they aren't clouds.
I'm saying the opposite: clouds over water are not smoke because water doesn't burn.
The exception is of course when smoke is blown from the land to the sea. Which is clearly not the case here.
By the way, "to the east" and "eastward" mean the same thing.
My forst reaction was also clouds. But then i saw the smoke too (bit hueish grey). And the massive brown patch of burnt area.
Fun fact: The reason we call it climate change and not global warming is because the George W Bush administration directed NASA to stop using phrases that they felt might scare the American populace.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.climatechange
While you're worried that "global warming" might sound too confusing to people who exist in the winter, the capitalists were pretty sure it was the phrase that was actually going to scare the working class into action.
I’ve heard this the other way.
Conservative climate deniers can more easily dismiss “global warming” because now they can point to winters being colder. Which of course is what climate change is.
I mean, I do kind of agree with climate change over global warming because Hicks always see one winter with a lot of snow and go "SEE?!?! Global warming my ass!"
Even though global warming doesn't discount colder winters amin certain locations. Once the gulf jet stream collapses the UK will have similar winters to northern Russia and Canada. Good luck my dudes.
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