Fires All Over the Earth

NASA ^ | 22 July 2005 | Me

[bannie]

This very UNscientific mind of mine wonders: Is this much fire activity normal? How can people in those reeeeally lit-up areas of Africa survive?

[bannie]

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[cripplecreek]

I see it showing fires here in southern Michigan yet strangely they don't seem to exist anywhere but on the map.

[theFIRMbss]

>Fires All Over the Earth

The world dissolves while you worry about a Russian slut

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I think that's the map of places where Bill Clinton has attacked women.

[bannie]

I'm wondering if it picks up campfires! LOL

I know that there aren't many fireplaces lit in the northern hemisphere this summer!

This isn't clear to me, either.

[RetiredArmy]

That is a map of red light districts.

[bannie]

haha! Hey, wait! Why am I laughing? That's scarey!

[mware]

According to this photo all of South Jersey should be in flames.

[bannie]

Italy's awfully BUSY!

[Always Right]

I see it showing fires here in southern Michigan yet strangely they don't seem to exist anywhere but on the map.

The one by Niles, MI is my grandpa burning his trash...

[Young Werther]

The fires in Brazil are clearing the triple canopy jungle sor farming. Unfortunately the rains will wash away the top soil since the jungle roods are gone and the topsoil is very thin. Does this contribute to increased CO2? You betcha, since the fires make CO2 and the trees which take in CO2 and give off O2 through photosynthesis are no longer there.

Southern Africa below the Sahara is also being burned and the result will be DESERTIFICATION!!! If you look at India and Indonesia the same catastrophic clear cutting is occurring.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Each of these fire maps accumulates the locations of the fires detected by MODIS on board the Terra and Aqua satellites over a 10-day period. Each colored dot indicates a location where MODIS detected at least one fire during the compositing period. Color ranges from red where the fire count is low to yellow where number of fires is large. The compositing periods are referenced by their start and end dates (julian day). The duration of each compositing period was set to 10 days. Compositing periods are reset every year to make year-to-year comparisons straightforward. The first compositing period of each year starts on January 1. The last compositing period of each year includes a few days from the next year.

[bannie]

I knew that Brazil was doing that...I had no idea that Africa was following suit.

We can't tell another nation what to do...too bad Africa's, apparently, committing suicide?

[Always Right]

This very UNscientific mind of mine wonders: Is this much fire activity normal? How can people in those reeeeally lit-up areas of Africa survive?

Well there are about 1 billion people on fire as we speak, but the MSM is too busy reporting about the Downing Street Memo and Karl Rove to inform us of this.

[skeeter]

Thats it. I'm packing for Iceland.

[Not A Snowbird]

Oh, look, there's a fire in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

[little jeremiah]

Here's a very good website to find out about fires; this is the west coast (more or less) page but there's links to other areas including the entire earth:

http://www.fs.fed.us/news/fire/mreport/shtml
National Incident Information Center

By "incident" they mean fire incident. Updates every AM.

[Young Werther]

Several years ago I went to a lecture at University of Texas Dallas, UTD The speaker was an alumnus who was an astronaut with an undergrad degree in geology. His masters thesis was written after he had dived to one of those volcanic vents in the deep ocean where those blood worms live and flourish in the darkness. He was a Naval officer at the time. His Doctorate was garnered when he traveled to Antarctica to study the field where those Martian meteors were strewn.

He was quite the speaker and I remember his thrill when he described his window time on his shuttle mission, (he was one of the astronauts who installed the air lock on the Destiny Module). He said we was saddened when he flew over Madagascar and saw the mud which surrounded the island. Clear cutting the lumber for furniture showed that poor land management was devastating the country and the fires shown on this display is every bit as tragic.

The envirowackos point at our SUVs and ignore the fact that South America, Africa,and Asia will soon be Dune, (hopefully without the Worms although you can pass me the melange por favor!)

[CFC__VRWC]

Add Haiti to your list. It has been largely deforested by now, and one of the main reasons there are so many deaths there when hurricanes hit is because of the mudslides resulting from the rains hitting the denuded mountain slopes.

[CFC__VRWC]

One of my instructors at UF when I was getting my environmental engineering degree summed this phenomenon up neatly - conservation of natural resources is a luxury, and therefore only wealthy nations can afford it. In places like Haiti and Africa, the people are too busy scratching out a minimum subsistence lifestyle to even give protecting the environment a second's thought. And the leadership of these countries is too corrupt to care.