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Canadas $6.9 Billion Wildfire Is the Size of Delawareand Still Out of Control
2016-06-04 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Tammy Tiedemann remembers the first time she took her kids to the pits. It was 2007. She was 35, a single mom, a Métis with Cree roots and Fort Mac proud: proud of the work she did for Shell Oil, the machines she operated, the toughness and camaraderie on the job, and proud of the mine itself, a monument to humanitys capacity to act on a massive scale, something like the pyramids in reverse. At the pit mine, 30 miles north of Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta, Tiedemanns 21-year-old son lit...
African migration may fuel rise in wildfire intensity
2016-05-31 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Urbanisation may lead to fewer traditional controlled burns in rural areas Build up of dry vegetation would raise risk of more-damaging fires Official efforts to ban all fires clash with traditional management Shares African wildfires may become larger and more intense as more people move to cities, a study has found. Traditional ways of using controlled burning to prevent out-of-control natural fires could die out in many rural areas as urbanisation increases, leaving grassland free...
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Fossil Fuel, Wildfire, and Fort McMurray
2016-05-30 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Blogs: Four weeks after a wildfire began in the Canadian province of Alberta, thousands of structures in Fort McMurray have been destroyed, over 100,000 people have been evacuated, and 2200 square miles have gone up in smoke. The fire has also shut down commercial extraction of tar sands, a source of fossil fuel and the reason for Fort McMurrays prosperity. Greg Laden points out the perverse cause and effect of it all: tar sands contribute to global warming, global warming contributes to weather variation...
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Activist Naomi Klein links Fort McMurray wildfire to climate change at University of Calgary speech
2016-05-30 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Calgary Sun: Activist Naomi Klein ruffled some feathers in the heart of Alberta's oilpatch Sunday, linking the devastating Fort McMurray wildfire to climate change and calling for an end to fossil fuels. Speaking at Congress 2016, which is being held at the University of Calgary, Klein said last year's Paris climate change agreement didn't go far enough. "It is a breakthrough and, if it's all we do, it will be an ecological disaster,' she told the crowd of almost 500 people. "If we are serious about...
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Some crude production restarts as cool weather saps Canadian wildfire
2016-05-25 01:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some crude producers restarted operations on Tuesday in Canada's energy heartland as a mass evacuation of the Fort McMurray oil town entered its fourth week, though cool weather and light winds were helping firefighters dampen the blaze. No oil facilities or communities were in the fire's path as of Tuesday morning as its footprint grew slightly to 523,000 hectares (2,008 square miles) from roughly 522,900 hectares on Monday, Alberta officials said at a news conference. The blaze was spreading...
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