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- Sep 2023
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macleans.ca macleans.ca
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lifelong toll it takes on the youngest
- for: forest fire - health impacts
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- health impacts include
- changes in gene expressions vital for immune system functionality
- women giving birth with blackened, diseased placentas
- children born
- smaller
- pre-term
- sicker
- developing croup
- laryngitis
- bronchitis
- health impacts include
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Hotter, harder-to-contain fires will burn indefinitely
- for: Canadian forest fires, stats - Canadian forest fires
- stats: 2017
- pyrocumulonimbus cloud rose 13 km into the stratosphere, a world record
- 12,000 square kilometers burned
- stats: 2023
- to the date of this article (Sept 1, 2023), 100,000 square kilometers burned
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- Aug 2023
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macleans.ca macleans.ca
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Across the region, roads buckled, car windows cracked and power cables melted. The emerald fringes of conifers browned overnight, as if singed by flame. Entire cherry orchards were destroyed, the fruit stewed on the trees. More than 650,000 farm animals died of heat stress. Hundreds of thousands of honeybees perished, their organs exploding outside their bodies. Billions of shoreline creatures, especially shellfish, simply baked to death, strewing beaches with empty shells and a fetid stench that lingered for weeks. Birds and insects went unnervingly silent. All the while the skies were hazy but clear, the air preternaturally still, not a cloud in sight. The air pressure was so high they’d all dissipated.
- for: climate communication, polycrisis communication, Canadian fires, Canadian wildfires, Canadian forest fires
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- Across the region,
- roads buckled,
- car windows cracked and
- power cables melted.
- The emerald fringes of conifers browned overnight,
- as if singed by flame.
- Entire cherry orchards were destroyed, the fruit stewed on the trees.
- More than 650,000 farm animals died of heat stress.
- Hundreds of thousands of honeybees perished,
- their organs exploding outside their bodies.
- Billions of shoreline creatures,
- especially shellfish,
- simply baked to death,
- strewing beaches with empty shells and a fetid stench that lingered for weeks.
- Birds and insects went unnervingly silent.
- All the while the skies were hazy but clear, the air preternaturally still, not a cloud in sight.
- The air pressure was so high they’d all dissipated.
- Across the region,
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author: Anne Shibata Casselman
- date: Aug, 2023
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source:
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- this description is so visceral that it should be made into a short movie,
- a new communication format more powerful than mainstream media presently uses is to record the actual substantial and visceral impacts with video and show to the public
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What follows is a portrait of Canada in a world warmed by two degrees. This is not what our country will look like if the world fails to reduce emissions—this is our future even if we do.
- for: Canada's future, climate future - Canada, climate communication, polycrisis communication
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- What follows is a portrait of Canada in a world warmed by two degrees. This is not what our country will look like if the world fails to reduce emissions—this is our future even if we do.
- author: Anne Shibata Casselman
- date: Aug, 2023
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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- for: Canadian forest fires, tipping point, forest fire graph, graph - forest fires - Canada,
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- graph that shows the unprecedented forest fires turning forests from carbon sink to carbon source
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- Aug 2020
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www.propublica.org www.propublica.org
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Burn bosses in California can more easily be held liable than their peers in some other states if the wind comes up and their burn goes awry. At the same time, California burn bosses typically suffer no consequences for deciding not to light.
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Much of the fire-suppression apparatus — the crews themselves, the infrastructure that supports them — is contracted out to private firms. “The Halliburton model from the Middle East is kind of in effect for all the infrastructure that comes into fire camps,” Beasley said, referencing the Iraq war. “The catering, the trucks that you can sleep in that are air-conditioned…”
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“The median compensation package — including base pay, special pay, overtime and benefits — for full time Cal Fire firefighters of all categories is more than $148,000 a year.”
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A six-word California fire ecology primer: The state is in the hole. A seventy-word primer: We dug ourselves into a deep, dangerous fuel imbalance due to one simple fact. We live in a Mediterranean climate that’s designed to burn, and we’ve prevented it from burning anywhere close to enough for well over a hundred years. Now climate change has made it hotter and drier than ever before, and the fire we’ve been forestalling is going to happen, fast, whether we plan for it or not.
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