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Quebec's forest fire protection agency (SOPFEU - Société de protection des forêts contre le feu) website[1] currently reports: > 1461435.3 HECTARES AFFECTÉS >
by EForEndeavour 3y ago
Quebec's forest fire protection agency (SOPFEU - Société de protection des forêts contre le feu) website[1] currently reports:
> 1461435.3 HECTARES AFFECTÉS
> 9860.1 MOYENNE 10 ANS
If I'm reading this right, Quebec's forest fire area burned year-to-date is 150 times higher than the ten-year trailing average, which is absurdly high.
No wonder this is choking multiple continents. I can't think of any geo-aggregated quantity that wouldn't massively disrupt human activity when multiplied by this factor. Imagine a 150x increase or decrease in: precipitation, forested area, agricultural production, human population, population of any animal, Kelvin temperature (ouch), sunlight (quick, flee to Europa), ...
[1] https://sopfeu.qc.ca/ https://sopfeu.qc.ca/
- voisin 3y ago> If I'm reading this right, Quebec's forest fire area burned year-to-date is 150 times higher than the ten-year trailing average, which is absurdly high Earlier this year (late May) the stat for Alberta was that already they had seen 100x more hectares burned than in all of last year.