verzalian hour ago
The situation in Bordeaux right now feels close to apocalyptic. I left yesterday. Two hundred thousand people are evacuated, hundreds of homes destroyed, and the fire about 10 miles from the edge of the city.
toomuchtodo36 minutes ago
What resources would you recommend to follow this event as it continues?
msk-lywenn28 minutes ago
It’s in French but this crowd sourced website updates quite quickly : https://feuxdeforet.fr/gironde-33/saumos-22-07-2026-4367/
ynac13 minutes ago
Just had the same here in Washington state for the Little Giant fire. Great image in the article. We had another fire cloud behind Rainier the other day, and saw it from the Rount Mainier farm - it really looked like the volcano was smoking up and ready to top-off. <clench>
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/little...
rich_sasha41 minutes ago
Good job climate change really, definitely, is a global conspiracy and completely untrue.
Because if it weren't, the current trend would be pretty amazing horrifyingly awful.
mingus8831 minutes ago
Everyone needs to remember those who were deniers and followers of them
Never let them live this down
edhelas23 minutes ago
https://rehost.diberie.com/Picture/Get/f/532005
Picture from the french "moderate" right journal Le Figaro, mai 2026.
"investigation into environmental alarmists"
dgellow17 minutes ago
The president of the United States, and pretty much all his cult-members/followers
jauntywundrkind27 minutes ago
I think part of why the right keeps getting more brazen, more anti-reality, anti-science, anti-education, anti-school, anti-democracy is that so many of their numbers are coming due. Disinformation isn't working, as the problems mount, so animosity/overdrama/anger and anti-information are the routes left to them now, as Titanic walls of flame engulf the world in their wake.
Bush II dismantled NASA's mission statement to monitor the world, for example. This is not a new foe, and I have not forgotten. https://www.ucs.org/resources/nasa-earth-removed-mission-sta...
vouaobrasil27 minutes ago
And at the same time, on the other side of the world, people are celebrating how much more productive they are with AI, never mind the energy taken up by datacenters both directly and indirectly (encouraging more consumerism and more CO2 output). It's exceptionally callous.
superkuh32 minutes ago
There's a good chance that conflagrations during WWII generated such clouds. There are well established incidents of such in Germany (and Japan) (ref: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/91/9/2010bam... , Hamburg, Dresden, etc) but nothing for certain in France. The British attacks on Royan which destroyed 85% of it with high explosive and napalam would be the most likely site.