MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIST, CONSULTANT & GLOBAL DIRECTOR at AFI GLOBAL MARINE
CLIMATE CHANGE BRAZIL: WILDFIRES SHOOT UP ALMOST 1,000% 2024's #climateextremes of all kinds seem to be rivaling 2023 worldwide. Brazil, depending on its large diverse regions, is facing records in temperatures, rainfalls, floods, droughts, wildfires, lightning and sea level. While the country is still struggling to recover from the record floods that hit the South for about 1 month (arguably the country's worst natural disaster in history), the Center-West is living the opposite ordeal: droughts and wildfires The latter is called "Pantanal" and is one of the very largest contiguous wetlands on the Planet with an almost unmatchable biome (variety of natural community of fauna & flora)= 140,000 Km2/ 34,600 acres This year the excessive drought is bringing with it some 1,450 wildfire spots (so far) compared to 133 in the same period of 2023, a shoot-up of about one-thousand percent The usual drier season for the Pantanal starts gradually in July, peaking in August & September but this year it not only kicked-off earlier but in overwhelming record numbers And local meteorologists are predicting that this year's season will be drier than usual breaking the previous recent record, with more wildfires from which the far-reaching thick smoke adds up to exacerbate #climatechange The Pantanal used to be a very important territory that helped balance the weather (not too dry and not too wet / controlling regional rivers from either drying or flooding etc) not only in Brazil but in neighboring countries as well. These past few years this natural regulatory mechanism has been weakening As a result, a vast number of diverse animals like alligators/ reptiles, felines/ mammals both small and large, fishes etc are being encircled by the fires/droughts and dying, another incalculable disaster for our disappearing animal variety We must take our current growing-in-momentum climate crises as a war, the War of all Wars; the greatest threat to our civilization. The time for resolute coordinated radical measures against it is running out very quickly. #UnitedNations's (#UN) #AntonioGuterres projected a deadline time-frame for true sincere and unified actions of up to 18 months We must be acutely aware, vigilant and pressing their local decision-makers/ representatives with all the emmonition available. #climatecrisis #climatecrises #globalwarming #climatdemergency
