Major Arctic Fire Outbreak — Number of Active Alaskan Wildfires Doubles in Just Five Days
Source: Robert Scribbler Late Sunday, there were 146 active wildfires burning in Alaska; as of Thursday afternoon, that number had exploded to 291. A combination of record hot temperatures and unprecedented thunderstorm activity over the Arctic state has provided numerous dry fuels and lightning-based ignition sources over recent weeks. During the past few days, conditions rapidly worsened as an extreme fire outbreak absorbed all of the firefighting resources of Alaska and tapped a substantial portion of other states’ resources as well. As of Wednesday afternoon, the NASA/MODIS satellite shot of Alaska (below) showed much of the massive state shrouded under vast clouds of steely gray smoke billowing up from the scores of wildfires blazing beneath. A cloud so large it is now becoming entrained in the Jet Stream and will likely blanket a large section of the Northern Hemisphere in a brown-carbon haze.
How Much Time Do We Have Left? Halting Climate Engineering Is A Primary Factor
Dane Wigington geoengineeringwatch.org Our collective reality is changing by the day. How much time do we have left? Though it is impossible for anyone to answer this question, the single greatest leap we could take in the right direction, a direction that would buy us more time, is to expose and halt the ongoing climate engineering insanity. If we can do this, we can then begin to face the long list of remaining challenges the human race has created for itself. The tipping point has long since come and gone for the Earth's climate system though mainstream sources have not yet fully acknowledged this fact. The collapse of industrialized civilization is only a matter of time and likely very near, there is no turning back. The miraculous and hospitable planet that we have all known has been decimated beyond the point of no return in any time frame that matters. The scientific community has recently sent out a warning by setting the "global doomsday clock" to 3 minutes before midnight. Does this mean we have no chance? Should giving up the fight for the common good be considered? Absolutely not. So long as there is a chance that the planet's life support systems can still be salvaged (and there is a chance), it is our responsibility to fight on. Marching in the battle to preserve a future for our children is not an option, it is our primary obligation in life. The human race is free falling into near term total extinction because of it's own behavior and apathy. It is this apathy that has allowed psychotic individuals to wield power unchecked and unchallenged for centuries. "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." This is Einstein's quote, and it is completely correct. Even at this late hour so many are "sitting the bench" waiting for someone else to take action an move the ball forward in regard to the fight for the common good. The "Doomsday Clock" assessment from the scientific community is extremely dire and this assessment does not even mention or consider what is mathematically the greatest and most immediate threat of all, global climate engineering. A Hopi Indian elder has given us words of wisdom that we should all take to heart each and every day. "We are the ones we have been waiting for." No matter how dark the horizon, it is not yet black. Unshakable meaning and purpose exists in firmly focusing ones efforts and energies on the fight for the common good. Educate yourself and stand your ground in the battle to sound the alarm, all of our voices are essential in the fight to expose and halt climate engineering. DW