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COLD COMMUNION (DAYLIGHT DIES, ALCHEMY OF FLESH) Streams Gloomy Debut Single 'Pyrocene'
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COLD COMMUNION (DAYLIGHT DIES, ALCHEMY OF FLESH) Streams Gloomy Debut Single 'Pyrocene'
#COLDCOMMUNION #DAYLIGHTDIES #StreamsGloomyDebutSingle #Pyrocene #single #MetalInjection #metal #music
Wowâno wonder Canada is on fire. Lytton, B.C. just hit 41.3 °C, Canadaâs hottest temp of 2025, as B.C. shatters daily heat records. Over 80 wildfires are raging. This is the climate crisis playing out in real time.
âPray for rainâ: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to
#Canadaâs response to the extreme weather threat is being upended as the traditional epicentre of the blazes shifts as the #climate warms
âConditions are really dry, thereâs no rain in sight, the risk is extremely high in #NovaScotia,â the provinceâs premier, Tim Houston, told reporters. âIâm happy to make sure that weâre doing everything we can to protect people, to protect property and try to just get through this #FireSeason and really just pray for rain.â
Fires have even erupted in #Ontarioâs #Kawartha Lakes region, a collection of rural communities less than 100 miles (160km) north of #Toronto that are a popular summer destination for residents of Canadaâs largest city.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/17/new-canada-wildfires-locations
#Wildfires in #Spain, #Portugal
https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite-hd/#view=42.1419,-6.5915,7z/date=2025-08-15,pm
#Pyrocene
#ClimateCrisis, man-made
"#Wildfires continue to expand in northwestern #Syria after burning 10,000 hectares of forest...The countryside of Latakia has seen intense wildfires due to# hightemperatures, exacerbated by strong winds in the region." #pyrocene
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/wildfires-expand-in-syria-s-latakia-as-10-000-hectares-of-forests-burned/3623540
https://bsky.app/profile/wildwoods.bsky.social/post/3ltczuxfmkk2k
With more than 7.8 million acres (3.15 million hectares) burned, according to Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre data, the season has already raced past the annual average, even when including the past two major fire seasons.
#climatechange #climateemergency #ForestFires #climatecrisis #pyrocene #Canada #Manitoba
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/06/10/canada-wildfires-land-burned-maps-smoke/
Animation, 1.7.2025 to 11.7.2025
Data
Wind @ 850hPa + Organic Matter Aerosol Optical Thickness (550 nm)
Source
CAMS / Copernicus / European Commission + ECMWF
Smoky weather in North America
https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=44.1,-101.9,4z/overlays=heat,fires
"I'm a historian of fire, and my reply is that we have both a narrative and an analog. The narrative is the unbroken saga of humanity and fire, a companionship that extends through all our existence as a species. The analog is that humanity's fire practices have become so vast, especially in recent centuries, that we are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age."
Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the #Pyrocene
by Stephen Pyne, The Conversation, January 22, 2025
"#LosAngeles is burning, but it isn't alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in #Colorado, the southern #Appalachians and the island of #Maui, along with #Canada, #Australia, #Portugal and #Greece. What wasn't burned was smoked in.
"Is this another case of a future not only dire but strange, without a narrative to join past to present or an analog for what is to come?
"I'm a historian of fire, and my reply is that we have both a narrative and an analog. The narrative is the unbroken saga of humanity and fire, a companionship that extends through all our existence as a species. The analog is that humanity's fire practices have become so vast, especially in recent centuries, that we are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age."
[...]
Welcome to the Pyrocene
"Widen the aperture a bit, and we can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, complete with the pyric equivalent of ice sheets, pluvial lakes, periglacial outwash plains, mass extinctions and sea-level changes. It's an epoch in which fire is both prime mover and principal expression.
"Humanity's firepower underpins the #Anthropocene, which is the outcome not just of #anthropogenic meddling but of a particular kind of meddling, made possible by humans' species monopoly over fire. Even climate history has become a subset of fire history.
"Fires in living landscapes, fires burning lithic landscapesâthe interaction of these two realms of fire has not been much studied. It's been enough of a stretch to fully include human fire practices within traditional ecology. Yet humansâthe keystone species for fire on Earthâare merging the two arenas of earthly burning with a give and take that is reshaping the planet in what resembles a slow-motion #Ragnarok.
"Add up all the effects, direct and indirect: the ice driven off by fire, the areas burning, the biogeographical #migrations as biotas move to accommodate changed conditions, the collateral impacts with damaged #watersheds and #airsheds, the unraveling of #ecosystems, the pervasive power of #ClimateChange, #RisingSeaLevels, a #MassExtinction, the disruption of human life and habitats. The result is a #pyrogeography that looks eerily like an ice age for fire. You have a maturing Pyrocene.
"If you doubt it, just ask California."
Full article (it's a good read):
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-human-era-uncontrolled-pyrocene.html
#Wildfires #UncontrolledFires #HistoryOfFire #PyroceneEra #ControlledBurning #ClimateCrisis
Not just human health! The #Toxic Blend of LAâs Urban #WildfireSmoke Will Have Lasting Health Consequences
Los Angeles residents are breathing bits of "cars, metal pipes, plastics."
By Zoya Teirstein, January 22, 2025
âThese fires are different from previous quote-unquote âwildfires,â because there are so many structures that burned,â said Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. 'Everything in the households got burned â cars, metal pipes, plastics.'
"#Wildfiresmoke is toxic. Burning trees and shrubs produce very fine #particulatematter, known by the shorthand PM 2.5, which burrow deep into the lungs and can even infiltrate the bloodstream, causing cold- and flu-like symptoms in the short term, and heart disease, lung cancer, and other chronic issues over time.
"But the fires that raced through Los Angeles burned thousands of homes, schools, historic buildings, and even medical clinics, blanketing the city in thick smoke. For several days after the first fire started, the cityâs air quality index, or #AQI, exceeded 100, the threshold, typically seen during wildfires, at which air becomes unhealthy to breathe for children, the elderly, and those with asthma. In some parts of the city, the AQI reached 500, a number rarely seen and always hazardous for everyone.
"At the moment, air pollution experts know how much smoke fills the air. Thatâs shown improvement in recent days. But they donât know whatâs in it. 'What are the chemical mixtures in this smoke?' asked Kai Chen, an environmental scientist at the Yale School of Public Health. 'In addition to fine particulate matter, there are potentially other hazardous and #carcinogenic organic compounds â gas pollutants, trace metals, and microplastics.'
"Previous research shows that the spikes in unhealthy air quality seen during such events lead to higher rates of hospitalizations for issues like asthma, and even contribute to heart attacks among those with that chronic disease. A 2024 study on the long-term effects of smoke exposure in California showed that particulate matter from wildfires in the state from 2008 to 2018 contributed to anywhere from 52,000 to 56,000 premature deaths. A health assessment of 148 firefighters who worked the Tubbs Fire, which burned more than 36,000 acres in Northern California in 2017 and destroyed an unusually high number of structures, found elevated levels of the #PFAS known as forever chemicals, #HeavyMetals, and flame retardants in their blood and urine.
"The L.A. County Department of Public Health has formally urged people to stay inside and wear masks to protect themselves from windblown toxic dust and ash. Air quality measurements donât take these particles into account, which means the air quality index doesnât reveal the extent of contaminants in the air.
"Zhu and her colleagues have been collecting samples of wildfire smoke in neighborhoods near the fires. Itâll be months before that data is fully analyzed, but Zhu suspects she will find a dangerous mix of chemicals, including, potentially, #asbestos and lead â materials used in many buildings constructed before the 1970s.
"The risk will linger even after the smoke clears. The plumes that wafted over the landscape will deposit chemicals into drinking #water supplies and #contaminate# soil. When rains do come, theyâll wash #ToxicAsh into streams and across the land, said Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, an environmental engineer and interim dean of the University of Colorado Boulder environmental engineering program. 'Thereâs a lot of manmade materials that are now being combusted. The potential is there for contamination,' he said, noting that little research on how toxic ash and other byproducts of wildfires in urban areas currently exists. 'What we donât have a lot of information on is what happens now.'
"After the Camp Fire razed Paradise, California, in 2018, water utilities found high levels of volatile organic compounds [#VOCs] in #DrinkingWater. Similar issues have arisen in places like Boulder County, Colorado, where the Marshall Fire destroyed nearly 1,000 structures in 2021, Rosario-Ortiz said, though the presence of a contaminant in a home doesnât necessarily mean it will be present in high levels in the water. Still, several municipal water agencies in Los Angeles issued preemptive advisories urging residents not to drink tap water in neighborhoods near the Palisades and Eaton fires. Itâll be weeks before they know exactly whatâs in the water.
"As wildfires grow ever more intense and encroach upon urban areas, cities and counties must be prepared to monitor the health impacts and respond to them. 'This is the first time Iâve ever even witnessed or heard anything like this,' said Zhu, who raised her daughter in Los Angeles and has lived there for decades, said. 'Even being in the field studying wildfires and air quality impacts, I never imagined that a whole neighborhood, a whole community in Palisades, would burn down.'"
Read more:
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-toxic-blend-of-las-urban-wildfire-smoke-will-have-lasting-health-consequences/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=flipboard_rss&utm_campaign=znetwork
#AirPollution #WaterPollution #AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #ToxicMaterials #EnvironmentalDisaster #EnvironmentalDamage #Pyrocene #PyroceneEra
New Fast-Spreading #Wildfire in #LosAngelesCounty Prompts Evacuations
Story by Ben Fritz, Victoria Albert, Alexa Corse, January 22, 2025
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. â "A fast-spreading wildfire sparked in northern Los Angeles County, prompting renewed fears of death and destruction in a region already decimated by historic wildfires this month.
"The #Hughes fire, which broke out north of #SantaClarita in the Castaic, Calif., area earlier Wednesday, has scorched more than 9,400 acres and is 0% contained, officials said. Evacuation orders have been issued for some 31,000 people, and an additional 23,000 were told to prepare to evacuate.
"No lives have been lost or structures reported damaged in the blaze, which is being fought by some 4,000 firefighters.
"Castaic is a remote, unincorporated part of northern Los Angeles County with a lake that draws many visitors in the summer. It has a population of about 19,000, but is close to the city of #SantaClarita, home to about 224,000 people and the Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park.
"At a press conference Wednesday evening, local officials speaking in front of large plumes of gray smoke said winds werenât as strong as during the infernos two weeks ago, allowing them to drop tens of thousands of gallons of retardant from the sky. In addition, firefighters from across the U.S. and overseas have surged to L.A. this month and were able to deploy quickly.
âThe situation remains dynamic and the fire remains a difficult one to contain, although we are getting the upper hand,â said Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Maroni."
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/fast-spreading-wildfire-in-los-angeles-county-prompts-evacuations/ar-AA1xFZqo?cvid=30c5303289c749e2b2978dbfbff9d0d1&ei=47
#CaliforniaFires #Pyrocene #PyroceneEra
Chris Hedges: Fire Weather
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/14/chris-hedges-fire-weather/
Welcome to the age of the âPyroceneâ where cities burn and water does not come out of the hydrants. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia, the Russian Far East…
#Politics #ClimateChange #Commentary #BorealForest #ChrisHedges #LosAngelesWildfires #Petroleum #Pyrocene #TarSandsOil
Manjula Martin âThe Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History.â (2024)
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sadness-and-strange-beauty-on-manjula-martins-the-last-fire-season/
2020 Conflagration*
â Nearly 9,900 #wildfires burned 4.3 million acres in #California 2020, twice the previous record.â
https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/californias-2020-wildfire-season-numbers
* Etymology: Latin conflagrant-, conflagrans, present participle of conflagrare to burn, from com- + flagrare to burn â
First Known Use: circa 1656
âWhat scene are you into?â
âLet me take you baby
On a scenic tourâ
âWhatâs my cene? â
â I have long regarded all of the #Holocene as an #Anthropocene & now regard the Anthropocene as a #Pyrocene
https://www.stephenpyne.com/disc.htm
#Chthulucene epoch: human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble
#Capitalocene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalocene
Maybe, all this tragedy in #LAfires has one silver lining:
rich people were hit.
Rich means influential in the USA.
Maybe, now they raise their voices loud enough so that the USA gets her act together and sufficiently acts on #ClimateChange .
Maybe now they realize that global heating not a slow-burning thing they can outrun by their financial means.
Maybe now they realize that they depend on functioning societies across all income groups and globally.
Fortune's article above links to the original article by AccuWeather with the damage estimate of US$ 150bn .
They describe the criteria for their estimate. And those sound pretty holistic.
Although still based on the official estimate for very low numbers of destroyed structures, 10k.
So the 150bn are likely to increase. Gruesome.
But re-building is good for GDP, as economists would see it. The #Pyrocene is the #EconObscene
https://www.accuweather.com/en/press/media-advisory-accuweather-increases-estimate-of-total-damage-and-economic-loss-ascatastrophic-wildfires-in-southern-california-continue-to-ravage-the-los-angeles-area-updated-preliminary-estimate-i/1732268
Un feu ravage la banlieue de Los Angeles, entre #Eaton et #Palisades.
Des scènes de chaos et destruction massive, les pompiers sont dÊbordÊs et le feu est incontrôlable.
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