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Chart showing fires have already consumed more than 3.5 million hectares of forest in Canada by early June, which is more than was consumed over the entire summers of 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022. It took until August of 2021 for the same amount of forest to burn as has already burned this year.

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Chart showing fires have already consumed more than 3.5 million hectares of forest in Canada by early June, which is more than was consumed over the entire summers of 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022. It took until August of 2021 for the same amount of forest to burn as has already burned this year.
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Rich Stein (richstein@econtwitter.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 21:23:51 UTC Rich Stein

The world is burning. At this point, should not be an abstract concept anywhere, anymore. 🙁 Time to act to mitigate/reduce global warming/climate change = now... Really, it was several decades ago. 😡
#running #photography #Canada #wildfires #wildfire #ClimateChange #AirQuality #AirQualityAlert #smoke #particulate #pollution #AirPollution #GlobalWarming #ClimateDiary
[h/t — because credit where due: @robsonfletcher https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wildfires-outlook-forecast-1.6865791]

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