Utterly insane scenes. This time of year I’m using to seeing crazy fires here the summer but in the LA Winter? Climate change is going to make these apocalyptic scenes more of a regular event and like that analogy of a boiled frog we’ll just keep seeing these and kicking the can down the road.
A litany of well known Hollywood stars have lost their homes (including Mahoney 😢) and while it’s hard to feel a huge amount of sympathy for multi millionaires, they’re still humans and they have lost their homes, their memories and their entire communities. Last thing I heard the Hollywood Bowl was under thread - it’s one of my favourite live venues on the planet.
Let’s hope somehow the firefighters get on top of the fires - it’s going to take military help.
The Hollywood fires
posted 9 hours, 11 minutes ago
BBC News' obsession with American news items especiallly when they have bad weather (if there is a hurricane force storm in the Carribean that causes havoc for islanders, it is only news if it lands on the US even as a downgraded tropical storm) and bush fires like this, which happen all over the hot World every year.
Its bordering on sycophantic. Apparently its because we have a 'special relationship'.
posted 9 hours, 5 minutes ago
Billy Joel should write a song about it
posted 6 hours, 56 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 3 hours, 40 minutes ago
Getting unprecendented coverage here on the BBC.
The Ash Wednesday fires in Australia a few years ago were far worse and only got a fraction of the coverage.
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The BBC tend to be very American bias with news coverage
posted 6 hours, 35 minutes ago
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posted 2 hours, 58 minutes ago
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posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 20 minutes ago
Getting unprecendented coverage here on the BBC.
The Ash Wednesday fires in Australia a few years ago were far worse and only got a fraction of the coverage.
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This - and if it was in China, Africa or any other part of the non-Western world it would be even less
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Over 100,000,000 hectares lost to wildfires in Brazil last year alone.
It’s a monumental problem which isn’t talked about nearly enough.
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Massive fires are an annual phenomenon across the Siberian taiga (the world's largest forest) too, and understood to be a direct contributor to the warming of the Arctic.
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I believe this forest if the largest absorber of CO2 in the world, and every year an area the size of Japan is wiped out.
Hard to fathom really.
posted 3 hours, 7 minutes ago
The coverage is well over the top. Yes five people have sadly died. But rich people losing one of their houses is not comparable to poor people being slaughtered on a daily basis in Gaza, which is getting next to no coverage now. Over 30,000 women and children murdered, and the West hasn't batted an eyelid. The coverage of news is unbelievably bad in the world in the 21st century.
posted 2 hours, 38 minutes ago
The BBC website is devoting most of its space to it - To the brink of obsession.
Personally I'm more interested in what's happening in the country that actually funds the BBC
posted 2 hours, 33 minutes ago
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posted 3 minutes ago
The BBC website is devoting most of its space to it - To the brink of obsession.
Personally I'm more interested in what's happening in the country that actually funds the BBC
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Russia?
posted 2 hours, 8 minutes ago
Emma Vardy was reporting from the film awards the other day looking like an absolute babe in a low cut dress....then next she's in the middle of a fire with a hazmat suit & a face mask
I know which I preferred
posted 46 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 1 hour, 50 minutes ago
The BBC website is devoting most of its space to it - To the brink of obsession.
Personally I'm more interested in what's happening in the country that actually funds the BBC
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Sky are actually far worse. Saturation coverage.
posted 23 minutes ago
If the fires were in the UK, we'd have Trump and Musk criticising our firefighters and would probably blame Diane Abbot