Robertscribbler is one of the most consistent bloggers on issues of climate warming and the unfolding disasters. A Half-million acres are converted to charcoal in a single day–and now the fires are being fueled by the methane unlocked by the melting of the Alaskan permafrost. And the ash and soot from the fires will darken the Arctic ice and neutralize the albedo effect, making an ice-free Arctic a near certainty come September.
All throughout the mainstream media last week we heard the same myopic litany — ‘a massive wildfire outbreak ongoing in Alaska is not abnormal.’ Well, today, all pretense that there was anything normal about the 314 wildfires still raging throughout the state has gone up in a cloud of boreal forest, tundra, and thawed permafrost emitted smoke.
As of 6:28 AM Alaska time today, 1,912,000 acres had burned in Alaska since the start of the year. That’s roughly 1,800,000 more acres burned than just before the current wildfire outbreak started on June 18th and 497,000 more acres burned over just the last 24 hour period alone. By comparison, the previous worst ever June fire outbreak for Alaska during 2004 burned less than 1,200,000 acres of the Arctic state.
(Alaska Interagency Center map of currently active wildfires now burning in Alaska.)
With 42 hours left in June and with more…
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