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Crude prices up as Canada’s blaze grows
Oil prices have jumped again as a huge wildfire in Canada’s oil sand region knocked out over a million barrels in daily production capacity. As Hayley Platt reports, a government reshuffle in Saudi Arabia is also being closely watched.
3 Comments on "Crude prices up as Canada’s blaze grows"
Apneaman on Mon, 9th May 2016 11:38 am
New video shows Fort McMurray devastation
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/new-video-shows-fort-mcmurray-devastation-1.2894139
apneaman on Mon, 9th May 2016 3:22 pm
Fort McMurray Fire Slowed Sunday by Light Rain — Despite Progress, Officials Expect Blaze to Burn for Months
“Conditions consistent with human-forced climate change remain in effect for Fort McMurray and for most of Northwestern Canada. In total, nearly 150 fires now rage throughout this Arctic country and in Alberta alone an army of more than 1,500 firefighters are now battling 32 wildfires including the Fort McMurry blaze. In British Columbia, 79 strongly active wildfires have completely absorbed that region’s firefighting resources. And on the Ontario-Manitoba border near Winnipeg, a fire exploding to 40,000 hectares has forced more than 125 people to flee and sparked a massive firefighting effort as that blaze grew four times in size since Friday.
Around the world, wildfires are now erupting in northern regions and permafrost zones along the Mongolia-Russia border and in the area of Lake Baikal — which has suffered from a decadal drought and very severe warming. As May progresses into June, we can expect this fire zone to creep northward — eventually involving much of the permafrost zone itself. And, to this point, a powerful Arctic heatwave will bring with it increasing risks of fire to Alaska and the Northwest Territory as temperatures are expected to rise up to 30 degrees F above average (into the upper 60s and lower 70s F) there later this week.”
https://robertscribbler.com/2016/05/09/fort-mcmurray-fire-slowed-sunday-by-light-rain-despite-progress-official-expect-fire-to-burn-for-months/
apneaman on Mon, 9th May 2016 5:36 pm
Fort McMurray blaze among most ‘extreme’ of wildfires: researcher
Record heat, tinder-dry conditions contributed to Alberta’s most devastating inferno, says UAlberta wildland fire professor. Expect more extremes in the future.
“Just a bad fire year or climate change?
In nearly every interview with journalists, Flannigan is asked whether the Fort McMurray wildfire is the result of climate change. The answer is unfailingly consistent—and careful.
“I never like to attribute a single event to climate change,” Flannigan explains into his speaker phone to a U.S.-based reporter.
What he does attribute to climate change is the amount of area burned each year, which has more than doubled since the early 1970s. “This is a result of human-caused climate change. There’s a lot of year-to-year variability with area burned, but we have doubled.”
The warmer it gets, the more fire we get due to increased evaporation and evapotranspiration, he explains, with the atmosphere drawing off moisture from trees and shrubs. According to research Flannigan published earlier this year in Climatic Change, for every degree in warming, 15 per cent more precipitation is needed to offset the risk of wildfire from drying fuel. Research published in Science in 2014 also associated every degree in warming with a 12 per cent increase in lightning activity—“more lightning, more fire.”
– See more at: https://uofa.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2016/may/fort-mcmurray-blaze-among-most-extreme-of-wildfires#sthash.dmQ7AI0m.dpuf“