Toxic haze in South East Asia from fires in Indonesia
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They're trying to seed clouds and also use dry ice to split up the ash particles somehow so they can rise higher up in the atmosphere and not clump together near the surface so much.
But before we cry CLIMATE CHANGE, the attribution is actually different: these fires are intentionally started for agriculture purposes. As slash & burn to clear rain forest, or burning harvest residue on the fields:
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Fires tend to get out of hand tho…
The area burned this year so far is said to be 900,000 ha. But no comparison to past years is given.
Mark Parrington from ECMWF, Copernicus, posted a carbon emission chart for Indonesia which puts 2026 as rather far below other El Nino years, despite El Nino strength already surpassing 2015 by a lot.
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Maybe that's an indication regarding the stuff that is burning this year. Lower carbon emissions >might< mean: not so much forest is burning but rather the harvest stubble on fields.
But without the number for area burned in those other Nino years, this is impossible to say.
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Anger is mounting at the companies accused of burning land in Indonesia and the authorities who have failed to stop them.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
