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I found this great NASA imaging tool. You can see that all of Punjab is on fire https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#z:6;c:77.5,28.8;d:2019-10-27..2019-11
by firasd 7y ago
I found this great NASA imaging tool. You can see that all of Punjab is on fire
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#z:6;c:77.5,28.8;d:2019-10-27..2019-11-03;l:countries,firms_viirs,firms_modis_a,firms_modis_t https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#z:6;c:77.5,28.8;d:...
Further reading on crop stubble burning:
https://www.news18.com/news/immersive/crop-burning-punjab-pollution.html https://www.news18.com/news/immersive/crop-burning-punjab-po...
I realized this in 2015 when I was looking at the sky and got the small/taste of something burning (and then I must have done some research). It has taken several years for everyone to 'get' it because winter pollution is confounded by other issues (low wind/rain, Diwali firecrackers, etc.) and people stop paying this much attention to the issue after these couple weeks of Armageddon--until the next year, when it happens again.
To this day the issue is obfuscated -- the media is talking about "Delhi pollution" which enables rival politicians to make it sound like a local governance issue when actually all of North India is under a cloud of smoke.