Posted on 08/10/2010 10:32:39 AM PDT by RnMomof7
MOSCOW — Russia fought a deadly battle Tuesday to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites as alarm mounted over the impact on health of a toxic smoke cloud shrouded over Moscow.
After almost two weeks of fires that have claimed over 50 lives and even part destroyed a military storage site, the authorities said they were making progress in fighting fires that still covered 174,035 hectares of land "A positive dynamic in liquidating the wildfires continues to be observed," said the head of the emergencies ministry's crisis unit, Vladimir Stepanov.
The emergencies ministry said that over the last 24 hours, 247 new fires had appeared, more than the 239 that were extinguished, and 557 fires were still raging across the affected region.
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Linsey is out of prison now so news is slow :(
Here is an article with a map of the fires
http://jotman.blogspot.com/2010/08/map-of-fire-situation-in-russia.html
How long was it before we even heard what happened at Chernobyl?
I understood the russians had perfected seeding clouds and controlling the weather.
What happened?
Doesn’t anyone believe in cutting fire breaks anymore?
Just let the loggers have at a patch of land a quarter mile wide every few miles....
geez
Imagine if this were our capital, Washington, D.C.
I’ve seen it on the news, and in the paper.
and just 2 months ago the Russians were saying “neener neener” at the predicted poisoning of the US east coast from toxic dispersant chemical-laden rain
These guys are dangerous- often when they have to solve a big problem they are willing to risk creating an even bigger one
Any hand by the chechens or other islamists in starting these fires?
luckily we do not have that much open land or forests surrounding our capital - but on the west coast? LA and other CA cities perhaps?
Look for some nukes to “go missing.”
“Oh look, cover!”—Heard by some Russian diplomat.
How true. If I didn’t have the internet, I may have missed it. Prayers for the Russian people and pray for rain. ZThe peat bogs are on fire, and from what I understand, are extremely difficult to put out. May God bless and protect the fire and rescue workers.
The area around D.C. is heavily wooded with a lot of older trees because the neighborhoods were developed decades, if not a century ago in some cases. Of course the area is nothing like the vast expanses in the West.
I think I would like to smoke all of the politicians out of D.C.
Do you remember GWB’s Healthy Forests Initiative in 2003? That legislation called for firebreaks, but the environmentalists cried bloody murder, and accused him of being in bed with “Big Logging.” The legislation was held up for almost a year without a vote.
Then the San Diego wildfires ravaged the area and got a lot of press and guess what? The Initiative was passed by the Senate, 80-14.
>>Imagine if this were our capital, Washington, D.C.
One can only dream....
That said, we do have some suburbs and exurbs in the forest, for example some are in the foothills west of Denver. People have wondered for years what might happen if/when a wildfire would break out in there.
Weirdly appropriate old-style Soviet phrasing, huh?
I bet the fires do not show up as a change in global CO2. Theory says they must, though.
Vladimir Valentinovich Alexandrov was a Nuclear Winter (remember?) associate of Carl Sagan. He had just completed an analysis of a past gigantic Russian fire. Nuclear Winter theory said that the Earth’s climate had to have been impacted by such an event (drastic cooling). He was about to present his findings at a Spanish conference when he disappeared from his hotel room, never to be seen again. his conclusion was that there were NO climate effects from the fires, and he questioned the accuracy of Nuclear Winter theory and its predictions.
Now that we have gigatons of carbon entering the atmosphere at a rate that volcanoes would be proud of, Global Warming theories can be tested.
Everybody watch the weekly Mauna Key CO2 numbers and see if there is a huge uptick!
Likewise a downtick in global temperature (particulate), or will it go up (CO2 greenhouse effect)?
www.woodfortrees.org has tracking tools.
Even if the wildfires didn’t get into the cities, some of our cities are in natural “bowls” that could trap smog, heat and fumes. I think this is what is killing Moscow.
Fumes - and heat.
Their apartments have no air conditioning and it is 104 degrees. Many folks are faced with keeping the windows closed and risk dying from the heat, or opening them and choking on the fumes.
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