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Arctic wildfires

Geoff Riley

27th July 2019

Areas of northern Siberia, northern Scandinavia, Alaska and Greenland have been engulfed in flames. According to Mark Parrington at the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, they are unprecedented.

I think it's fair to say July Arctic Circle #wildfires are now at unprecedented levels having surpassed previous highest #Copernicus GFAS estimated July total CO2 emission (2004/2005), & last month's 50 megatonnes (https://t.co/pGPoLaz2Q0
), and still increasing @DrTELS pic.twitter.com/c1usbimzG7
— Mark Parrington (@m_parrington) July 22, 2019

Here are some other tweets covering this hugely important story

“Satellite images reveal fires across Greenland, Siberia and Alaska, with warm dry conditions following ice melt on the enormous Greenland icesheet starting a month earlier than average. In Alaska wildfires have already burned more than 1.6 million acres.” https://t.co/Pzq7vp7eem
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) July 23, 2019

Unprecedented wildfires burn in the Arctic during heatwave

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.

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