Shit, wild fires now on Corfu

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We're booked to fly there next weekend.

Back to Corfu, are fires spreading rapidly or controlled? And is it likely to be put on don’t travel list?

I'd just assume holidays are off

Ehh, I thought it had been confirmed as arson?

It's astonishing to see how many people are in denial about climate change.

Do people not understand that, regardless of how the fires may have started, the climate conditions have a huge impact on how the fire spreads and the extent to which it can be controlled.

I guess some people just don't want to know.

My dad is a corfiat. He said it’s no hotter than normal this time of year.

Greece is on fire yet people still don't think climate change isnt a problem. Staggering. How much worse will it have to get before people realise what's happening?
It doesn't matter what someone's dad said, or a local waiter said. Look at what every scientist has been saying for years, what the data is showing.

*is a problem! Sorry that first sentence didn't make sense

It usually is, even in this country

I feel a bit uncomfortable reading about people's holiday experiences when actually these are also residential areas and peoples lives and homes/wildlife.

I got back from Corfu yesterday. It was certainly hotter than I've ever known it. My friends are still there as they aren't due to fly home until late tonight.

They were evacuated last night but couldn't find any alternative accommodation. A kind hotel owner opened his lobby to evacuees so they spent the night there but didn't get much sleep. He's just given them breakfast too. They are really touched by the kindness being shown.

Foreign minister on BBC now - he’s saying that there was ‘movement’ in Corfu but these people have now been sent back. He’s saying the situation is under control

This

His thermometer is perhaps not working as accurately as the scientists' thermometers...

As the saying goes, there's none so blind as they who will not see.

how does dry grass catch fire by itself?

The sun causes it to catch fire, so it is not 'by itself' but spontaneous combustion of dry matter is a risk at times of high temperature and drought.

All threads keep being derailed by climate change posters

Climate change plus arson equals this.

Anyway, I think they've got in under control

We went there maybe 20 years ago and there was a massive fire on the mountain behind where we we staying. Nothing new, as people have said cigarette, disposable BBQs etc

The issue is that lives are being derailed by climate change, not just threads. It is weird to want to discuss the situation in Europe but not include climate as a factor.

You can't demand people to leave climate change aside when it's part of the picture.

Its ostrich behaviour.

What was that film recently that highlighted it so well?

A broken piece of glass can set off a fire.

How is it derailing?

We might not like it, but climate change is a factor here. It is real. We can't keep pretending it isn't.

I'm no eco warrior, but I can't ignore the facts when they're staring us in the face.

Burying our heads in the sand about it is not going to make the problem go away.

Climates change. Sometimes they get hotter and sometimes they get cooler.

Fires have been breaking out all over.

Do you have a source for the arson allegation?

Weird how this latest sudden rise in temperatures can be carefully plotted right back to when we started burning fossil fuels eh

"Climate change is getting pretty bloody unignorable suddenly."

And yet those that have the power to tackle it go on ignoring.

And voters chose to oppose ULEZ.

So here we are. Sorry your holidays are all ruined folks.