Every summer the huge fires rage out of control and they are getting bigger. A colleague of mine who has flown regularly to China from Finland, says they are visible from the air as they cover such vast areas.
I saw an animation at the Finnish Forest Institute which showed that for a 2 degree C rise in average temperature, the entire Siberian region would become a tinderbox.
The Russians are developing special aircraft for water pick up and transport, and firefighting capabilities eg fire commandoes who parachute down to cut breaks. But it is a drop in the ocean to coin a phrase - there is NO infrastructure, no roads, no airfields, no way to fight these fires. You can't be me, I'm taken
The problem is, only 7 are built so far and four of them are leased for this summer to Portugal and Italy. The Russians want sell planes abroad instead of using them themselves. There were fierce debates on this in the Russian parlement.(Any Russian around?)
The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
