Moscow Times
Posted on 08/02/2019 1:04:39 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Severe wildfires are burning across an area about the size of Massachusetts in the vast Russian region of Siberia—and now the resulting smoke is arriving in North America, according to satellite imagery.
Summer wildfires in Siberia are relatively common, however, the situation this year is particularly bad with around 2.7 million hectares currently burning across six Russian regions, according to the country's Federal Forest Agency.
The government has declared a state emergency in five of these regions in response to the fires, which experts say have been fueled by a mix of record-high temperatures in some areas, lightning storms and strong winds, the Financial Times reported.
The government has been slow to respond to the fires, saying they won't try and fight them because they are in "hard-to-reach" areas away from urban populations, The Moscow Times reported.
"This is a common natural phenomenon, to fight with it is meaningless, and indeed sometimes, perhaps even harmful," Alexander Uss, governor of the Krasnoyarsk region, said on Monday, the FT reported.
In addition to the wildfires, some parts of Siberia have also been hit by severe flooding in recent weeks which has put the world's oldest and deepest lake at risk of "environmental catastrophe."
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Moscow Times
looks like Beijing on a clear day...
The world’s oldest and deepest lake is going to get older and deeper, and that is considered a catastrophe.
The world’s oldest and deepest lake is going to get older and deeper, and that is considered a catastrophe.
LOL! you guys are both hilarious!
And of course all of this is due to global warming. And also, because Trump pulled us out of the Paris agreement.
If we were still in the Paris agreement, mother nature would not have created such disasters.
Sarcasm.
” Siberian Wildfires are sending Huge Clouds of Smoke to North America”
AND....AFRICA sends us Saharan dust
Canada sends COLD air
Mexico sends us REFUGEES !!!
Just be glad it wasn’t a mushroom cloud.
But the smoke will lower the temperature. Score!
Funny. If you posted that on a liberal website you'd probably get lots of, "Hear, hears".
My wife saw that India and Pakistan are near war (again), so let's hope your "glad" holds.
It's nice to see that commonsense and reason are still alive somewhere in the world.
A friend in Finland said these fires happen every year. They also happen in Finland. She said it’s no big deal.
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