http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/30/watch-this-12-years-of-fires-burn-across-the-globe/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/30/watch-this-12-years-of-fires-burn-across-the-globe/#comment-34123 Daniel J. Andrews Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:07:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=39610#comment-34123 Yukon also had some good fires in 2004 and ontario had some serious ones 2003, and a number of years since then. They all do show up but compared to fires in tropical zones like Africa it seems our fires are rather small by comparison. Considering how the sun was blocked out by smoke by days at a time even though we were hundreds of km away from the big fires, it is scary to contemplate just how big those tropical fires must have been I order to make our fires look like brief sparks in the darkness. Yukon also had some good fires in 2004 and ontario had some serious ones 2003, and a number of years since then. They all do show up but compared to fires in tropical zones like Africa it seems our fires are rather small by comparison. Considering how the sun was blocked out by smoke by days at a time even though we were hundreds of km away from the big fires, it is scary to contemplate just how big those tropical fires must have been I order to make our fires look like brief sparks in the darkness.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/30/watch-this-12-years-of-fires-burn-across-the-globe/#comment-34122 Jon Claerbout Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:05:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=39610#comment-34122 I remember all of Alaska on fire the summer of 2004 but it doesn't show up. Wonder why? I remember all of Alaska on fire the summer of 2004 but it doesn’t show up. Wonder why?

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