Small world, isn’t it?

And Fukushima sits like a ticking time bomb!

Holy Smokes!

And Fukushima sits like a ticking time bomb!

Any radiation issues with Fukusima over here is less than the natural background radiation you are already exposed to. In the past there have been over 2300 nuclear bomb tests and we are still here.

“The Voice of Russia reported that 11,000 hectares (about 42.4 square miles) of forests in Siberia were on fire in May and that the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations says roughly 80 percent of these fires are intentionally set to clear land for farming.” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120612101605.htm

Maybe more bike riders ought to be summoned up to ride to compensate for this “pollution”. I sure hope none of this haze settled down around our “no-idle zones”. That would be a contradiction, would it not? Screwy town and screwy priorities.

Small world, isn’t it?

Big fire, isn’t it?

Well, as far as Siberian forest fires go, 2003 fires were twice the current size. In 2002 it was the same as at this time, 11 million hectares.

The current fires are certainly not a record. The way the wind pattern is going might be different.

By comparison, 2010 was one of the higher fire season years – 330,000 hectares burned in BC.

Gives one an idea of the size of Siberia and the amount of forests there. So, wonder if they will be growing wheat or faster growing forests.

11,000 hectares eh?? …LOL …. add a few more zeros.

gus: “Gives one an idea of the size of Siberia and the amount of forests there. “

Agreed. That’s why I laugh at the suggestion by some people that we shut down log and lumber exports out of BC… like we have some sort of monopoly on trees.

recent fires around here

2010 – Pelican Lake complex (Nazko area)- 35,506 hetares (355 square miles)

2010 – Binta Lake (Burns Lake area) – from 7,000 to 35,000 hectares in 12 hours. Final size, 40,000 hectares

2010 – Meldrum Creek Complex – 47,293 hecares

2010 – Bull Canyon (Alexis Creek) – 35,000 hectares

2009 – Lava Canyon (Chilcotin) 66,719 hectares.

Some big ones

1982 – Eg Fire(Liard) – 182,725 hectares

1971 – Te Fire (Liard) – 110,419 hectares

1958 Kech fire (Lard-Kechika) – 225,920 hectares ….

11,000 hectares? And all this smoke? Obviously the “perfect storm” situation or the wrong size of fire.

BTW, there is a fire in Montana tht is burning at 100,000 hectares right now. The Ash Creek fire ….

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/crews-hope-to-contain-ash-creek-fire-by-monday-continue/article_4f5a7e5e-3c7d-57ce-bee8-c150e7e21c99.html

That is 10 times the supposed fire in Siberia ….

From a USA site:

“the four major wildfires in the west are now all better than 65% contained. With the lessening of major fire smoke and the diversion of the Asian smoke into Canada, next week may bode better air quality across the country than we have been seeing.”

http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq

That is said to be the Siberian plume at the beginning of July.

http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl2_143.A2012182033500-2012182034000.2km.jpg

NASA uses the “A-Train” to capture these weather related images.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cloudsat/multimedia/a-train.html

Gus, 35,506 hectares is closer to 139 square miles. maybe 355 square kilometers.

Oh, finally we have something for the clean air fairies to look after, get’m, go to Siberia and tell them to put it out, cause its kind of getting thick over here.

Thanks, he spoke … misread a figure … yes, conversion from hectares to km2 is easy …. move the decimal to places to the left …. :-)

two places ….. :-(

And there are still smokers out there flicking their ashes and butts out the window of their vehicles.

Seamutt, if the fuel rods in reactors 3 and 4 catch fire there will be no place to hide. The crisis isn’t over until they put those spent rods into dry storage.

NoWay care to elaborate.

This should make your toes tingle-http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/05/f-nuclear-power-post-fukushima.html?cmp=googleeditorspick

I don’t like Russian smoke. Even their cigarettes are terrible…….

Here you go Seamutt,

http://enenews.com/if-fukushima-spent-fuel-pool-goes-dry-would-be-like-a-massive-dirty-bomb-being-set-off-video

The Engineers website,

http://fairewinds.org/

Videos

http://fairewinds.org/fukushima