We agree the photograph is tinted.
I believe the tint is in the atmosphere, not the camera optics.
Though not as dark, we had that hue in the sky here in NY today. I can smell smoke in the air.
Maybe they should make trees out of Titanium?
Anthropogenic Global Warming ... how hot is it ?
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I believe the tint is in the atmosphere, not the camera optics.
Though not as dark, we had that hue in the sky here in NY today. I can smell smoke in the air.
Maybe they should make trees out of Titanium?
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Apparently the crew on that train has been rescued - they escaped on foot and were taken to hospital to be checked over - the concern was how much smoke they'd inhaled.Northern Ontario is engulfed in wildfires
‘We’re encased in flames’: Video emerges of train halted in wildfire, union lambasts CN Rail
The scenes outside the window of the train are breathtaking. A wall of flame engulfs the treeline just feet away from tracks.www.ctvnews.ca
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Meanwhile Michigan politicians go off the rails (any surprise that they're Republicans?)
“Michigan Republicans Blast Canada Over Wildfire Smoke”
By Steve Ward
I wonder whether the continuing heat wave is starting to take a toll on my patience. Or perhaps I could simply be reaching my fill of the ongoing self-destruction of the United States by the inept and corrupt Trump Administration. In any event, I hit my limit for American political angst with yesterday’s actions by four Republican members of Congress from Michigan who co-wrote a scathing letter to our Prime Minister expressing their anger over Ontario’s current wildfires due to them being the cause of poor air quality south of the border.
This small group, who I have coined the Irate Republican Congressional Quartet, is comprised of Michigan Congressional Representatives John James, Jack Bergman, John Moolenaar and Lisa McClain who expressed the following sentiments in their letter to Mr. Carney:
~Accused Canada of failing to conduct adequate forest maintenance to reduce the risk of wildfires.
~Suggested that provincial premiers are offering excuses rather than results.
~Advised that Michigan hospitals are again treating residents for the effects of smoke that originated in Canada.
~Warned that they are “done accepting apologies in place of action” and hinted that the United States could decide to assume control over all cross-border fire prevention.
~Scolded Canada by stating that “sovereignty comes with responsibility, and the responsibility to prevent a foreseeable disaster from crossing into another country's airspace has not been met. That attitude is unacceptable from a neighbor and an ally.”
When reading this heated letter, a Canadian can’t help but ask a few reasonable follow-up questions:
~How much of Canada’s current climate change crisis has been worsened by dangerous airborne agents that have crossed into our country from the United States?
~What exactly is the United States even dojng to fight climate change?
~How exactly do these ideologically-driven right-wing politicians expect Canada to prevent wildfires caused by heat, dry conditions, lightening and human activities?
In reality, the number of fires in Canada has been increasing annually due to climate
change and the dresulting impacts listed in the ....
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There are currently 607 wildfires burning in the US
As for air quality
“Michigan Republicans Blast Canada Over Wildfire Smoke”
By Steve Ward
I wonder whether the continuing heat wave is starting to take a toll on my patience. Or perhaps I could simply be reaching my fill of the ongoing self-destruction of the United States by the inept and corrupt Trump Administration. In any event, I hit my limit for American political angst with yesterday’s actions by four Republican members of Congress from Michigan who co-wrote a scathing letter to our Prime Minister expressing their anger over Ontario’s current wildfires due to them being the cause of poor air quality south of the border.
This small group, who I have coined the Irate Republican Congressional Quartet, is comprised of Michigan Congressional Representatives John James, Jack Bergman, John Moolenaar and Lisa McClain who expressed the following sentiments in their letter to Mr. Carney:
~Accused Canada of failing to conduct adequate forest maintenance to reduce the risk of wildfires.
~Suggested that provincial premiers are offering excuses rather than results.
~Advised that Michigan hospitals are again treating residents for the effects of smoke that originated in Canada.
~Warned that they are “done accepting apologies in place of action” and hinted that the United States could decide to assume control over all cross-border fire prevention.
~Scolded Canada by stating that “sovereignty comes with responsibility, and the responsibility to prevent a foreseeable disaster from crossing into another country's airspace has not been met. That attitude is unacceptable from a neighbor and an ally.”
When reading this heated letter, a Canadian can’t help but ask a few reasonable follow-up questions:
~How much of Canada’s current climate change crisis has been worsened by dangerous airborne agents that have crossed into our country from the United States?
~What exactly is the United States even dojng to fight climate change?
~How exactly do these ideologically-driven right-wing politicians expect Canada to prevent wildfires caused by heat, dry conditions, lightening and human activities?
In reality, the number of fires in Canada has been increasing annually due to climate
change and the dresulting impacts listed in the ....
SOURCE with comments
There are currently 607 wildfires burning in the US
As for air quality
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The highest reliably recorded air temperature in Death Valley is 134°F (56.7°C) at Furnace Creek on July 10, 1913, recognized by the World Meteorological Organization as the highest officially verified air temperature on Earth.
This is like dinosaurs having their picture taken with an asteroid.
This is like dinosaurs having their picture taken with an asteroid.
- wait -
There's a location within Death Valley known as "Furnace Creek"? "CREEK" ?!
Really ?
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And it continues .....
At least eight people have died as severe weather continues to sweep across the United States, with flash flooding, powerful thunderstorms and extreme heat disrupting travel and threatening communities on July 19.
The National Weather Service said "scattered strong to severe thunderstorms" could produce damaging wind gusts July 19 across the Carolinas, southeastern Virginia and the Tennessee Valley, with the threat shifting to the northern Plains into the night. Thunderstorms could bring locally significant flash flooding, urban flooding and small-stream flooding across parts of the Southwest this week.
The severe weather conditions came after days of flooding in Texas, along with flash flooding in Utah and Arizona, that left the eight individuals dead, according to ...
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At least 8 dead as flash floods, powerful thunderstorms sweep across US
At least eight people have died as severe weather continues to sweep across the United States, with flash flooding, powerful thunderstorms and extreme heat disrupting travel and threatening communities on July 19.
The National Weather Service said "scattered strong to severe thunderstorms" could produce damaging wind gusts July 19 across the Carolinas, southeastern Virginia and the Tennessee Valley, with the threat shifting to the northern Plains into the night. Thunderstorms could bring locally significant flash flooding, urban flooding and small-stream flooding across parts of the Southwest this week.
The severe weather conditions came after days of flooding in Texas, along with flash flooding in Utah and Arizona, that left the eight individuals dead, according to ...
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There are multiple elements involved here.
We seem to know enough about the science.
The complications are substantially socio-political.
People succumbed to flood and heat-wave before global warming. They're still are today.
It is easier for the sociopathic subset to dismiss those presenting the facts of anthropogenic global warming, by dismissing them as "woke"
than to accommodate the complexities.
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A Major Ocean Current Is On The Verge of Collapse. Scientists Say The Effects May Reach California
Earth's climate systems are inexorably and often unexpectedly interconnected.
Dust from North Africa's Sahara Desert drifts thousands of miles to fuel food webs in the Amazon and the ocean's depths, while pollution-eating microbes hitch a ride through the atmosphere on gusts of wind or wisps of fog.
Among the most influential planet-shaping forces is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an immense Atlantic Ocean current system that acts as a planetary conveyor belt. It brings balmy water northward from the tropics to Europe, then cycles the cooled water back south along the seafloor.
However, human-caused climate change is slowing this vital system and even threatening a ....
A Major Ocean Current Is On The Verge of Collapse. Scientists Say The Effects May Reach California
Earth's climate systems are inexorably and often unexpectedly interconnected.
www.sciencealert.com
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And that doesn't consider the American wildfires
Active Wildfire Map - American Forests
Hotter, drier and more variable conditions have caused an increase in destructive and high severity wildfires. Check your area for active wildfires today.
www.americanforests.org
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Europe's heat waves are killing thousands—and wringing its soils dry
The European continent is facing a dual reckoning this summer—extreme heat is killing thousands and draining its rivers, soils and reservoirs at a record pace
Boats lay on the dried Danube river bed in front of the Calafat-Vidin bridge,connecting Bulgaria and Romania on July 22, 2026.
Prolonged drought and hot weather across Europe have pushed water levels along the Danube river to record seasonal lows.
Europe’s climate-change-driven summer of extreme heat has been hitting the continent with a one-two punch: the heat wave has not only killed thousands but has been sucking the water out of rivers, lakes, soils, and plants and fueling destructive wildfires. The strain is testing the adaptations that municipalities have put in place since a hallmark deadly heat wave in 2003.
Repeated bouts of extreme heat led Western Europe to its warmest June on record, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The second half of the month had a heat wave that was so intense that it broke monthly and all-time temperature records across several countries. An analysis by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) research group found that these extreme temperatures would’ve been “virtually impossible” without the influence of global warming and that such temperatures were now about 10 times more likely than they would’ve been in 2003. Heat waves themselves are also hotter than .....
Europe's heat waves are killing thousands—and wringing its soils dry
The European continent is facing a dual reckoning this summer—extreme heat is killing thousands and draining its rivers, soils and reservoirs at a record pace
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Extreme weather has officially outpaced even the most pessimistic climate models. Heat waves that once seemed extraordinary are now happening more frequently, with greater intensity, and across much larger regions at the same time. Researchers point to 2023 as a turning point, when global temperatures didn't just break records but shattered them by margins so wide that scientists are still working to explain the data, even after accounting for natural climate patterns and volcanic activity.
Climate scientists Tim Lenton of the University of Exeter and Friederike Otto of Imperial College London have both described these events as falling far outside anything researchers previously expected, both in scale and intensity. This isn't limited to rising temperatures alone. It includes prolonged, deadly heat waves, devastating rainfall and flooding, stronger droughts that destroy crops, and infrastructure and power grids being pushed past their limits. Scientists are also closely watching the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a major ocean current system that regulates climate, warning that significant weakening could bring dramatic, irreversible weather shifts to regions like Europe.
While renewable energy continues to expand, global greenhouse gas emissions remain near record highs, and experts stress that every fraction of a degree matters. Cutting emissions won't reverse these changes overnight, but it remains the clearest way to limit how extreme future storms, floods, and heat waves become.
Source: Climate research citing Tim Lenton (University of Exeter) and Friederike Otto (Imperial College London). Shared for informational/educational purpose only.
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Deadly flooding in West Virginia finds prevention plans unaddressed
At least two West Virginians are dead, dozens of homes are damaged and communities across north central West Virginia are left picking up the pieces in the wake of another major flood.Just a decade ago, a massive flood prompted state officials to dive into state coffers for relief money and set up an office dedicated to softening the blow of future floods. But so far, little has been done.
The flood of 2016 affected a wider area of the state and took nearly two dozen lives. Brendan Muckian-Bates, a policy advocate for the Appalachian Flood Resilience Coalition, pointed to .....
Deadly flooding in West Virginia finds prevention plans unaddressed
At least two West Virginians are dead, dozens of homes are damaged and communities across north central West Virginia are left picking up the pieces in the wake of another major flood.
apnews.com
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In 1912, a New Zealand newspaper published a small notice explaining that coal combustion was adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and would eventually cause global warming significant enough to affect global climates.
1912.
In 1965, the President's Science Advisory Committee warned Lyndon Johnson that greenhouse gases from fossil fuels would modify the Earth's heat balance with potentially dangerous consequences.
In 1977, Exxon's own senior scientist told the company's management that global warming was real, human-caused, and serious.
Exxon's response was to fund over $30 million into climate denial campaigns over the following decades.
They knew. They chose profit.
They manufactured doubt.
Meanwhile, the data kept building.
97% of actively publishing climate scientists agree on the reality and cause of climate change.
That level of scientific consensus is comparable to the consensus that vaccines prevent disease and that the Earth is not flat.
We did not have a knowledge gap.
We had a carefully engineered perception gap, funded by the industries that profited from delay.
The meteorologist in this image is not fictional. She is every climate scientist who has stood before a camera, presented data, answered questions, given interviews, published papers, testified in hearings — and watched the news cycle move on to something more immediately entertaining.
James Hansen. Katharine Hayhoe. Michael Mann.
Scientists who dedicated their lives to communicating a crisis while being funded less, attacked more, and taken seriously by fewer people than the industries paying to discredit them.
The studio audience is empty not because people do not care. It is empty because caring was made to feel inconvenient, expensive, politically complicated, and personally irrelevant.
That was not an accident. That was a strategy.
And it worked. For decades.
The forecast was always accurate. The channel was always changed.
We are living now in the weather it predicted.
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