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appleannie1943

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Sun Aug 13, 2017, 08:59 AM Aug 2017

Theres an Unprecedented Wildfire in Greenland. Thats Bad News for the Arctic. [View all]

This is going to sound weird, but there’s a wildfire right now in west Greenland. You know, that huge island of mostly ice? Part of it is on fire.

There’s been nothing even close to this since reliable satellite-based fire detection records began in Greenland in 2000. Very small wildfires can evade satellite detection, and old-timer scientists who have worked in Greenland for decades say that micro-fires there aren’t necessarily uncommon.

This week’s fire, however, is on another level

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/08/a-huge-forest-in-greenland-is-on-fire-and-thats-a-big-deal/

But global warming is just a vast conspiracy by left-wingers.

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