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Jul 6Liked by Rick Thoman

Thanks Rick, always look forward to your posts

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Thank you.

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Jul 11Liked by Rick Thoman

Our neighbors had a package tour to Alaska cut short when the Denali park was closed due to fires. I understand that the fire season in Alaska is lengthening and increasing in severity. UA Fairbanks Intl Arctic Research Center has an article about what they're tracking

https://uaf-iarc.org/alaskas-changing-wildfire-environment/

Question do we have data indicating that Alaska's experience is circumpolar?

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Bummer for your neighbors. That's very disappointing for them.

As far as I know, wildfire area burned data is available for northern Canada since about 1990. The only Russian Arctic wildfire data I know of is satellite based since about 2002. But realistically it's nearly certain that Arctic wildfire is increasing in area and in intensity, i.e. fires are burning hotter.

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