France and Spain wildfires: more than 300k people displaced(www.cnn.com)
33 pointsby tosh8 hours ago3 comments
  • shartsan hour ago
    What is making these spread? Is it lack of forest management / controlled burns, etc?
    • pvaldesan hour ago
      Some wildfires started in June, but the situation exploded after Ankara Summit in July 8 2026. Fires near Oslo, Ottawa, Toronto, Paris, Bordeaux, Madrid, Malaga, Naples, The West coast of US, Istambul. Yep even Turkey, the host of the NATO meeting is burning. All in just a couple of weeks.

      Arsonists detained in France, Spain and UK. In Calabria there are even reports of cats with flammable soaked rags tied to its tails, set on fire and released in the fields, they had found also candles lit among flammable rags, and delayed ignition devices [1]. This is everything except a natural disaster. Hybrid war. Don't look no further.

      [1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-arsonists-used-cats...

  • vivzkestrel3 hours ago
    - keeping pareto s principle (not sure if its applicable here) what would be the one thing you could change today that ll cut down emissions or cabon dioxide accumulation by 80% tomorrow? or how about methane?
    • julosflb2 hours ago
      I think that is the root of the problem, there is no one magick trick. We need to attack it from many angles, as each of them is weighting only a couple of percents. Reduce air traffic and reduce meat consumption and reduce fossil fuel for transportation and reduce deforestation...
    • pvaldesan hour ago
      Wildberries?

      What is the point to save a bit of CO2 here and there, when Ukraine and Iran wars are sending us to the Carboniferous firing on all cylinders?

  • pvaldes2 hours ago
    NATO is burning. This is a fact. More than 5000 critical-level wildfires active in USA and Canada West coast.

    China and Russia are doing relatively well at least. Except by Volgograd Oblast, that is boiling, and some Siberian activity below the expected average, most of Russia is quiet. China has less active wildfires than Spain.

    And if you think that this, or the 652 wildfires in France and other 670 in Spain are bad, check the more than 30.000 critical-level wildfires active in Angola, Zambia and other African countries. African rainforest is a smoking disaster right now.

    https://currentwildfires.com/en/