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French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260726-french-firefighters-face-pyrocumulonimbus-for-first-time
30•saaaaaam•1h ago

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verzali•1h 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.
toomuchtodo•45m ago
What resources would you recommend to follow this event as it continues?
msk-lywenn•37m ago
It’s in French but this crowd sourced website updates quite quickly : https://feuxdeforet.fr/gironde-33/saumos-22-07-2026-4367/
rich_sasha•51m 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.

mingus88•41m ago
Everyone needs to remember those who were deniers and followers of them

Never let them live this down

jauntywundrkind•37m 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...

edhelas•32m ago
https://rehost.diberie.com/Picture/Get/f/532005

Picture from the french "moderate" right journal Le Figaro, mai 2026.

"investigation into environmental alarmists"

dgellow•26m ago
The president of the United States, and pretty much all his cult-members/followers
jubilee33•9m ago
Yes because it was the old people watching Fox news who did this...those led astray; but not corporations polluting and their employees "just doing their job", not politicians enabling them and taking payoffs, not the people who own the propaganda outlets?

I mean ultimately it is everyone who ever bought an electronic product or drove an automobile or ate a burger right?... At some level. But it just seems like this level of anger should be directed at the actually decision makers and their lackeys... or are u claiming that there is some sort of functioning democracy that holds power accountable, because most of the electorate like wars and bombing and usury and these things too? If you must be angry, and not saying you shouldn't be, please focus it on the correct source and not other powerless people, misinformed as they may be.

superkuh•41m 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.
vouaobrasil•37m 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.
ynac•22m 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...

eikenberry•6m ago
https://archive.is/20260725052942/https://www.seattletimes.c...
jrajav•2m ago
Let's roll with the futilist attitude for a second; what is it you suggest that we actually do, once we're focusing the anger on the correct source?

Kill The Cookie Banner

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French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260726-french-firefighters-face-pyrocumulonimbus-for-firs...
30•saaaaaam•1h ago•14 comments

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