Given how controversial and often limited the news we see now is, I'm posting something I saw this morning and I can't help thinking that we need to know about unprecedented weather and catastrophic events in the world that directly relate to climate change.
The scale of what is happening in Nebraska right now is an absolute apocalypse. We aren’t just looking at "fires"—we are witnessing the methodical incineration of a state's history. Over 827,000 acres of Nebraska have been turned into a charred, unrecognizable wasteland. This isn't just a "bad season"; it is the single most destructive wildfire catastrophe the Heartland has ever recorded.
From the Morrill Fire to the Cottonwood blaze, the speed has been predatory. We saw a wall of flame roar across 70 miles in less than 12 hours—a literal blitzkrieg of fire fueled by hurricane-force winds and a drought that turned the prairie into a powder keg. This is the "intact prairie"—land that hasn't been touched by a plow in centuries—now scarred so deeply it may take a human lifetime to recover.
Families didn't just lose houses; they lost legacies. Ranchers didn't just lose cattle; they lost generations of breeding. And most gut-wrenching of all, the flames have already claimed the life of an 86-year-old grandmother, Rose White, who couldn't outrun the inferno as it swallowed her homestead. The world might be looking away, but for Nebraska, the sky is black, the land is gone, and the nightmare is far from over.
FULL HERE: moonvale.xyz/.../great-plains-aflame-unseen...
Perhaps GNers in Australia will have a comment and yes, it's Facebook where many creditable scientists and scientific organisations post as well as news outlets one knows only too well to be wary of.
A drop in the ocean in the great schemes of things....but replicated by how many more
