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Climate change fueled the Australia fires. Now those fires are fueling climate change.

Grist

Australia is in the midst of a devastating wildfire season that is being exacerbated by climate change. But the fires, which have been burning for months and could rage on for months to come, are also impacting the earth’s climate in several ways. But in New South Wales, this year’s wildfire emissions are off the charts.

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Welcome to the Pyrocene

Grist

Siberian fires moved north of their home territory and flared beyond the Arctic Circle. The Pantanal wetlands in central South America burned. Where fires were not visible, the lights of cities and of gas flares were: combustion via the transubstantiation of coal and gas into electricity. It generates raw power.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

The disappearing of the North Pole, the melting of the Arctic (ice), a “blue ocean event”… These all come down to the same thing: a pivotal change in Earth’s climate with many possible disastrous side effects. As long as there is ice in a body of water, any surrounding heat energy is carried towards the ice to make it melt.