techhub.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A hub primarily for passionate technologists, but everyone is welcome

Administered by:

Server stats:

4.6K
active users

#Pyrocene

0 posts0 participants0 posts today
UniversidadxClima<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfires</span></a> continue to expand in northwestern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> 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." <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pyrocene</span></a><br> <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/wildfires-expand-in-syria-s-latakia-as-10-000-hectares-of-forests-burned/3623540" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/wildf</span><span class="invisible">ires-expand-in-syria-s-latakia-as-10-000-hectares-of-forests-burned/3623540</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/wildwoods.bsky.social/post/3ltczuxfmkk2k" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/wildwoods.bsk</span><span class="invisible">y.social/post/3ltczuxfmkk2k</span></a></p>
SPQR<p>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.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climateemergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateemergency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ForestFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForestFires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manitoba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manitoba</span></a><br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/06/10/canada-wildfires-land-burned-maps-smoke/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/weather/202</span><span class="invisible">5/06/10/canada-wildfires-land-burned-maps-smoke/</span></a></p>
O=C=O<p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfire</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/smoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smoke</span></a> in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p><p>Animation, 1.7.2025 to 11.7.2025</p><p>Data<br>Wind @ 850hPa + Organic Matter Aerosol Optical Thickness (550 nm)</p><p>Source<br>CAMS / Copernicus / European Commission + ECMWF</p><p><a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#2025/06/10/1800Z/particulates/isobaric/850hPa/anim=off/overlay=organic_matter_aot/equirectangular=-14.06,-0.90,306" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">earth.nullschool.net/#2025/06/</span><span class="invisible">10/1800Z/particulates/isobaric/850hPa/anim=off/overlay=organic_matter_aot/equirectangular=-14.06,-0.90,306</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/RemoteSensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RemoteSensing</span></a> <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateScience</span></a> <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a></p>
O=C=O<p>Smoky weather in North America</p><p><a href="https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=44.1,-101.9,4z/overlays=heat,fires" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#vie</span><span class="invisible">w=44.1,-101.9,4z/overlays=heat,fires</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfire</span></a> <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a></p>
fluids_guru<p>The costs of climate adaptation continue. Our volunteer-based model of community fire suppression is inadequate for the fossil-fuel pyrocene. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VicPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VicPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BushFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BushFire</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WildFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WildFire</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateAdaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAdaptation</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-16/fire-levy-vote-passes-parliament-angers-farmers-emergency-tax/105295008" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-05-16/fir</span><span class="invisible">e-levy-vote-passes-parliament-angers-farmers-emergency-tax/105295008</span></a></p>
Thomas Barrio<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://piaille.fr/@ground" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ground</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@LoupiotNoir" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>LoupiotNoir</span></a></span> ahah Le <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pyrocene</span></a> je ne connaissais pas ! mais cela pourrait bien réduire le <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plantationocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plantationocene</span></a> en cendres, c'est sûr !! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/D%C3%A9passerH%C3%A9raclite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DépasserHéraclite</span></a></p>
Levka<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fire</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pyrocene</span></a></p><p>"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."</p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/wildfires/we-are-creating-the-fire-equivalent-of-an-ice-age-humans-have-plunged-earth-into-the-pyrocene" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/planet-earth/w</span><span class="invisible">ildfires/we-are-creating-the-fire-equivalent-of-an-ice-age-humans-have-plunged-earth-into-the-pyrocene</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a></p><p>by Stephen Pyne, The Conversation, January 22, 2025</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngeles</span></a> is burning, but it isn't alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colorado</span></a>, the southern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Appalachians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Appalachians</span></a> and the island of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maui</span></a>, along with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Portugal</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greece</span></a>. What wasn't burned was smoked in.</p><p>"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?</p><p>"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."</p><p>[...]</p><p>Welcome to the Pyrocene</p><p>"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.</p><p>"Humanity's firepower underpins the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropocene</span></a>, which is the outcome not just of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anthropogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anthropogenic</span></a> 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.</p><p>"Fires in living landscapes, fires burning lithic landscapes—the 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 humans—the keystone species for fire on Earth—are merging the two arenas of earthly burning with a give and take that is reshaping the planet in what resembles a slow-motion <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ragnarok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ragnarok</span></a>.</p><p>"Add up all the effects, direct and indirect: the ice driven off by fire, the areas burning, the biogeographical <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/migrations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrations</span></a> as biotas move to accommodate changed conditions, the collateral impacts with damaged <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/watersheds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>watersheds</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/airsheds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>airsheds</span></a>, the unraveling of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a>, the pervasive power of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RisingSeaLevels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RisingSeaLevels</span></a>, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassExtinction</span></a>, the disruption of human life and habitats. The result is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pyrogeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pyrogeography</span></a> that looks eerily like an ice age for fire. You have a maturing Pyrocene.</p><p>"If you doubt it, just ask California."</p><p>Full article (it's a good read):<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-human-era-uncontrolled-pyrocene.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-01-human-er</span><span class="invisible">a-uncontrolled-pyrocene.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfires</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UncontrolledFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UncontrolledFires</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HistoryOfFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfFire</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PyroceneEra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PyroceneEra</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ControlledBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ControlledBurning</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Not just human health! The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toxic</span></a> Blend of LA’s Urban <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WildfireSmoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WildfireSmoke</span></a> Will Have Lasting Health Consequences </p><p>Los Angeles residents are breathing bits of "cars, metal pipes, plastics."<br> <br>By Zoya Teirstein, January 22, 2025</p><p>“These fires are different from previous quote-unquote ‘wildfires,’ because there are so many structures that burned,” said Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. 'Everything in the households got burned — cars, metal pipes, plastics.'</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildfiresmoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfiresmoke</span></a> is toxic. Burning trees and shrubs produce very fine <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/particulatematter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>particulatematter</span></a>, 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. </p><p>"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 city’s air quality index, or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AQI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AQI</span></a>, 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. </p><p>"At the moment, air pollution experts know how much smoke fills the air. That’s shown improvement in recent days. But they don’t know what’s 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carcinogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carcinogenic</span></a> organic compounds — gas pollutants, trace metals, and microplastics.'</p><p>"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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a> known as forever chemicals, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeavyMetals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeavyMetals</span></a>, and flame retardants in their blood and urine.</p><p>"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 don’t take these particles into account, which means the air quality index doesn’t reveal the extent of contaminants in the air. </p><p>"Zhu and her colleagues have been collecting samples of wildfire smoke in neighborhoods near the fires. It’ll be months before that data is fully analyzed, but Zhu suspects she will find a dangerous mix of chemicals, including, potentially, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asbestos</span></a> and lead — materials used in many buildings constructed before the 1970s. </p><p>"The risk will linger even after the smoke clears. The plumes that wafted over the landscape will deposit chemicals into drinking <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> supplies and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contaminate</span></a># soil. When rains do come, they’ll wash <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicAsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicAsh</span></a> 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. 'There’s 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 don’t have a lot of information on is what happens now.'</p><p>"After the Camp Fire razed Paradise, California, in 2018, water utilities found high levels of volatile organic compounds [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VOCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VOCs</span></a>] in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrinkingWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrinkingWater</span></a>. 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 doesn’t 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. It’ll be weeks before they know exactly what’s in the water. </p><p>"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 I’ve 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.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-toxic-blend-of-las-urban-wildfire-smoke-will-have-lasting-health-consequences/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=flipboard_rss&amp;utm_campaign=znetwork" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-t</span><span class="invisible">oxic-blend-of-las-urban-wildfire-smoke-will-have-lasting-health-consequences/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=flipboard_rss&amp;utm_campaign=znetwork</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicMaterials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicMaterials</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDisaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDisaster</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDamage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PyroceneEra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PyroceneEra</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>New Fast-Spreading <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfire</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngelesCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngelesCounty</span></a> Prompts Evacuations </p><p>Story by Ben Fritz, Victoria Albert, Alexa Corse, January 22, 2025</p><p>SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — "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.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hughes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hughes</span></a> fire, which broke out north of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SantaClarita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SantaClarita</span></a> 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.</p><p>"No lives have been lost or structures reported damaged in the blaze, which is being fought by some 4,000 firefighters.</p><p>"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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SantaClarita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SantaClarita</span></a>, home to about 224,000 people and the Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park.</p><p>"At a press conference Wednesday evening, local officials speaking in front of large plumes of gray smoke said winds weren’t 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.</p><p>“The situation remains dynamic and the fire remains a difficult one to contain, although we are getting the upper hand,” said Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Maroni."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/fast-spreading-wildfire-in-los-angeles-county-prompts-evacuations/ar-AA1xFZqo?cvid=30c5303289c749e2b2978dbfbff9d0d1&amp;ei=47" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/weather/topstori</span><span class="invisible">es/fast-spreading-wildfire-in-los-angeles-county-prompts-evacuations/ar-AA1xFZqo?cvid=30c5303289c749e2b2978dbfbff9d0d1&amp;ei=47</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CaliforniaFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CaliforniaFires</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PyroceneEra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PyroceneEra</span></a></p>
kriykat<p>Chris Hedges: Fire Weather<br><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/14/chris-hedges-fire-weather/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">consortiumnews.com/2025/01/14/</span><span class="invisible">chris-hedges-fire-weather/</span></a><br>Welcome to the age of the “Pyrocene” 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&amp;#8230;<br><a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commentary</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/BorealForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorealForest</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/ChrisHedges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisHedges</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/LosAngelesWildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngelesWildfires</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Petroleum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Petroleum</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/TarSandsOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TarSandsOil</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>Manjula Martin “The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History.” (2024)<br><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sadness-and-strange-beauty-on-manjula-martins-the-last-fire-season/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lareviewofbooks.org/article/sa</span><span class="invisible">dness-and-strange-beauty-on-manjula-martins-the-last-fire-season/</span></a></p><p>2020 Conflagration*<br>“ Nearly 9,900 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> burned 4.3 million acres in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> 2020, twice the previous record.”<br><a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/californias-2020-wildfire-season-numbers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ucdavis.edu/climate/news/calif</span><span class="invisible">ornias-2020-wildfire-season-numbers</span></a></p><p>* Etymology: Latin conflagrant-, conflagrans, present participle of conflagrare to burn, from com- + flagrare to burn — <br>First Known Use: circa 1656</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ManjulaMartin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ManjulaMartin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fireseason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fireseason</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sonoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sonoma</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>“What scene are you into?”<br>“Let me take you baby <br> On a scenic tour” <br> “What’s my cene? “</p><p>“ I have long regarded all of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Holocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Holocene</span></a> as an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropocene</span></a> &amp; now regard the Anthropocene as a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.stephenpyne.com/disc.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">stephenpyne.com/disc.htm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chthulucene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chthulucene</span></a> epoch: human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices.<br><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dukeupress.edu/staying-with-th</span><span class="invisible">e-trouble</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capitalocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalocene</span></a> <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalocene" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalo</span><span class="invisible">cene</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropocene</span></a> <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropo</span><span class="invisible">cene</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Holocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Holocene</span></a> <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
anlomedad<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://snac2.popolon.org/Popolon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Popolon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>yogthos</span></a></span> </p><p>Maybe, all this tragedy in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/LAfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LAfires</span></a> has one silver lining: <br>rich people were hit. <br>Rich means influential in the USA. <br>Maybe, now they raise their voices loud enough so that the USA gets her act together and sufficiently acts on <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> . <br> Maybe now they realize that global heating not a slow-burning thing they can outrun by their financial means. <br>Maybe now they realize that they depend on functioning societies across all income groups and globally. </p><p>Fortune's article above links to the original article by AccuWeather with the damage estimate of US$ 150bn . <br>They describe the criteria for their estimate. And those sound pretty holistic. <br>Although still based on the official estimate for very low numbers of destroyed structures, 10k.<br>So the 150bn are likely to increase. Gruesome. <br>But re-building is good for GDP, as economists would see it. The <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> is the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/EconObscene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconObscene</span></a> <br> <br><a href="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" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">accuweather.com/en/press/media</span><span class="invisible">-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</span></a></p>
O=C=O<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngeles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfire</span></a> today</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RemoteSensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RemoteSensing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=238.41512087877646,32.31874391652288,243.81835286661533,35.03220168374065&amp;t=2025-01-10-T12%3A12%3A06Z" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?</span><span class="invisible">v=238.41512087877646,32.31874391652288,243.81835286661533,35.03220168374065&amp;t=2025-01-10-T12%3A12%3A06Z</span></a></p>
LoupiotNoir<p>Un feu ravage la banlieue de Los Angeles, entre <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Eaton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eaton</span></a> et <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palisades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palisades</span></a>.</p><p>Des scènes de chaos et destruction massive, les pompiers sont débordés et le feu est incontrôlable.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyroc%C3%A8ne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocène</span></a></p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-southern-california-santa-ana-winds-b565a3bd043d6444820f1571b2307bf1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/wildfire-so</span><span class="invisible">uthern-california-santa-ana-winds-b565a3bd043d6444820f1571b2307bf1</span></a></p>
fluids_guru<p>As Australian country is once again impacted by fire, it’s worth reading this 2015 article which was the first attributed use of the word ‘Pyrocene’</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-humans-made-fire-and-fire-made-us-human" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-humans-made</span><span class="invisible">-fire-and-fire-made-us-human</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WildFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WildFire</span></a></p>
Dr Micha Campbell<p>I'm very pleased to be co-convening this proposed session at <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EGU25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EGU25</span></a> with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@Geo_Juv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Geo_Juv</span></a></span> and others - "CL1.2.12<br>Using proxy data, observations, and modeling to understand vegetation-wildfire-climate interactions during the past, present, and future." We look forward to your submissions, and catching up in Vienna! </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfire</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Bushfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bushfire</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fire</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/palaeofire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palaeofire</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paleofire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paleofire</span></a></p>
Steve Pyne<p>Another way to think about the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a>. It's geology's version of Jurassic Park. We take something from tens of millions of years ago, release it in the present, and find a lot of unexpected consequences.</p>
Pauline von Hellermann<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@aehdeschaine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aehdeschaine</span></a></span> yes.. we relly have entered the <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Pyrocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrocene</span></a></p>