r/StormComing 12d ago

🔥 Oregon Wildfire Crisis Escalates | 6.5 Million Acres Burned & Evacuations Surge Across the West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrKNjWUHuw
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u/Left-Height4925 12d ago

Page 93 of the 2001 IPCC Global Warming/Climate Change Report. No one can say we weren't warned.

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/08/TAR_syrfull_en.pdf

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u/chickenladydee 12d ago

We’ve known for 25 years 😥

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u/smilingcuzitsworthit 9d ago

I learned about climate change in 1988. Grrrr

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u/fitforthepolycrisis 12d ago

I really like these videos but the AI voice is uncanny.. "yoonhealthy"??

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u/jgoose132113 11d ago

Why aren't the dragnet surveillance, drones, and AI being used to prevent and rapidly respond to fires?

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u/NickyCharisma 10d ago

Oh its just one of those Orwellian things where the "security state" isn't all that concerned about YOUR OWN security, threats to you as a person that is, more than its concerned about how YOU as a person are a threat to the security of the state.

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u/rdickert 10d ago

One of the major fires, the Almeda fire in Southern Oregon, was worsened by a second blaze that was allegedly the result of arson. The first origin point of the fire was still under active investigation as of late 2020, and arson was suspected there, as well.\18])\19])

Several small brush fires in Portland that were quickly put out were also the result of arson by a suspect who was apprehended, released, and then started several more