“Mother Nature Hates You”

Instead of preparing for wildfires, Hawaii was busy going “green.”

Politicians, the media and environmentalists spent the past week blaming the Maui fires on global warming.

“That level of destruction, and a fire hurricane, something new to us in this age of global warming, was the ultimate reason that so many people perished,” Hawaii Gov. Joshua Green claimed, while ignoring his state’s mismanagement of the disaster and its botched response at every level from the power grid that wasn’t secured to the sirens that didn’t go off.

As Yellowknife evacuates in the face of an oncoming naturally caused wildfire, police in the city say they discovered an attempted arson overnight.

RCMP said a fire on Deh Cho Boulevard, a bypass road on the western periphery of Yellowknife nearest the oncoming fire, was reported at 4am on Friday.

A red sun over Montreal. Crops withering in the field. Thousands of people fleeing a territorial capital. Smoke blanketing cities from Toronto to Ottawa to New York.

These are not scenes out of a dystopian novel but pulled straight from Canada’s summer of fire and smoke, now cresting in the frightening evacuations of Yellowknife and Kelowna.

😭😱 this is so awful. I had great memories of the Shuswap Lake cottage community (not really, but that's beside the point). This is nuts 😡😒#BCWildfire#ClimateCrisispic.twitter.com/AfL9udUYfu

— Karen Woods 林爷 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌻 (@KarenWenLin) August 19, 2023

Please pray for Kelowna BC Canada. The latest forest fires are insane. If you’re in the Okanagan and you need respite for ur family or ur Animals/ livestock reach out. I have fenced 40 acres in Shuswap and access to 30 acres outside Vernon. Open to anyone that needs it. Dm me. pic.twitter.com/HYQv6qZrLk

— Bam VanCity (@VanCity_Bam) August 19, 2023

Two arson incidents in Yellowknife, four people charged, two sought

h/t Mauser

41.73º N, 49.95º W, North Atlantic Ocean, June 18, 2023

Fate cleared up the weather, blew off the fog, and calmed the waves, as the submersible and its five passengers dived through the surface waters and fell into another world. They entered the deep ocean’s uppermost layer, known as the twilight zone, passing creatures glimmering with bioluminescence, tiny fish with enormous teeth. Then they entered the midnight zone, where larger creatures ghost by like alien moons. Two miles down, they entered the abyssal zone—so named because it’s the literal abyss.

Deeper means heavier: pressures of 5,000, then 6,000 pounds per square inch. As it descended, the submersible was gripped in a tightening vise. Maybe they heard a noise then, maybe they heard an alarm.

I hope they watched the abyss with awe through their viewport, because I’d like to think their last sights were magnificent ones.

Hawaii had the world’s fanciest natural disaster warning system on the planet. It also had an ongoing firebug problem, and recent academic study warning that the place was very vulnerable to fire catastrophes.

Somehow, none of that figured in the government’s fire plan. The firebug is still out there. The conditions created for big fires, such as the proliferation of non-native grasses, remain on Maui. And the fancy emergency warning system somehow didn’t work.

Horrifying new footage has emerged of dozens of Hawaiians flailing in the choppy water after jumping in to avoid the catastrophic wildfire that torched the town of Lahaina earlier this week.

The fire began on Tuesday, spreading quickly and ferociously. The exact cause of it remains unclear but high winds, dry conditions and low humidity exacerbated the flames.

Fifty-five people have been confirmed dead already and 1,000 remain missing three days on from the blaze.

🚨 #BREAKING | #Hawaii | #Maui | #Lahaina | #lahainafire | #MauiFires |

New video has emerged of people jumping into the ocean from wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii pic.twitter.com/c3hrR99IYR

— Bot News (@BotNews18) August 11, 2023

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Thousands of Hawaii residents raced to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island, destroying parts of a centuries-old town and killing at least 36 people in one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires in recent years.

The fire took the island by surprise, leaving behind burned-out cars on once busy streets and smoking piles of rubble where historic buildings had stood in Lahaina Town, which dates to the 1700s and has long been a favorite destination for tourists. Crews battled blazes in several places on the island Wednesday, and the flames forced some adults and children to flee into the ocean.

State of Emergency declared in #Hawaii, #wildfires trigger #mass #evacuations across the islands. #MAUI #HAWAI #WILDFIRE #LAHANIA #lahainafire #MauiFires #MauiWildfires #mauifire pic.twitter.com/71NYEY8ZiY

— Ekta Chaubey (@EktaChaubey10) August 10, 2023

Recent forest fires in Canada and around the world have sparked fear and outrage from those who have been impacted by them. Overeager ecological activists have been quick to take advantage of this and are misleading Canadians about the probability of future fires. Large forest fires make everyone nervous, and deservedly so, but attributing every fire to climate change is both scientifically unsound and horribly opportunistic.

Most of the 667 fires that have erupted across Greece in recent weeks were started “by human hand”, the country’s senior climate crisis official has said.

As the Mediterranean country emerges from an unprecedented, 15-day period of heatwave-induced infernos, the scale of the destruction is finally being laid bare.

While weather conditions have been different from any other year – with experts calling the first three weeks of July the hottest on record – most of the fires could have been prevented, the government claimed on Friday.

Up to 450,000 Americans may have been affected by a potentially life-threatening red meat allergy caused by ticks as many doctors remain unaware of what it is or how to treat it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In new reports released on Thursday, the CDC found that between 96,000 and 450,000 Americans since 2010 may have been affected by alpha-gal syndrome. The syndrome, also known as a red meat allergy or tick-bite meat allergy, stems from alpha-gal, a sugar molecule not naturally present in humans. Instead, it is found in meat including pork, beef, rabbit, lamb and venison, as well as products made from mammals including gelatin and milk products.

Three days after a landslide destroyed a dozen hillside homes in southern California, the cause of the disaster is still unclear, even as the homes continue their slow descent into a canyon.

Sixteen people have been displaced since the land between the homes began shifting and sliding over the weekend.

A robot sent to search for the missing submersible Titan found its remains almost immediately after it went down to the site of the Titanic, the head of the team that led the search said.

Ed Cassano, the chief executive of the New York-based Pelagic Research Services, tearfully recalled sending his company’s remote operating vehicle (ROV) on what he hoped would be a rescue mission. “Shortly after we arrived on the sea floor, we discovered the debris of the Titan submersible,” he said.

Presumed human remains recovered from the wreckage of the Titan submersible, the US Coast Guard has said.

Medical professionals will formally analyse the remains which are understood to have been found within the debris from the sea floor at the site of the deep-sea vessel’s fatal implosion, which killed five people.