[Intro}
What kind of desire…
To promote wildfire
Fanning flames higher
All the while dire
[Verse 1]
Tender the tinder
Too dry to try
Careless care less
Embark the spark
[Chorus]
What desire…
To promote wildfire
Fanning flames higher
All the while dire
[Bridge]
Unnatural to aspire
Set ablaze
A fire
Amaze
[Verse 2]
Wind won’t rescind
You know she’ll blow
Stoke the smoke
’till all is aglow
[Chorus]
What desire…
To promote wildfire
Fanning flames higher
All the while dire
[Bridge]
Unnatural to aspire
Set ablaze
A fire
Amaze
[Chorus]
What desire…
To promote wildfire
Fanning flames higher
All the while dire
[Outro]
Unnatural to aspire
Set ablaze
A fire
Amaze
A SCIENCE NOTE
Several feedback loops involve brown carbon, lightning, wildfires, arctic warming, ice melt, and permafrost collapse. Brown carbon, with a low albedo, absorbs more heat, releasing sequestered carbon and methane into the atmosphere, creating a self-reinforcing cycle.
Studies have identified a feedback loop between lightning and forest fires. Global warming increases extreme weather events, conducive to lightning. More lightning ignites trees and soil, releasing warming CO2, creating more storms and lightning. The Forests at Risk Due to Lightning Fires study reveals the sensitivity of intact forests to potential increases in lightning fires, impacting terrestrial carbon storage and biodiversity.
“What many people may not be aware of is that lightning is the most common ignition source for fires in remote temperate and boreal forests,” says Thomas Janssen, research associate at VU Amsterdam. These forests store large amounts of carbon, which is released in the form of greenhouse gases during the fire. The research reveals that 77% of the burned area in intact forest regions outside the tropics is due to lightning fires, and the number of strikes is expected to increase by 11 to 3 % per degree warming with ongoing climate change.
“When a thunderstorm passes through this landscape, there are thousands of lightning strikes, and some hundreds of them start little fires,” said Prof Sander Veraverbeke from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, one of the authors on the research paper. “And these can grow together into mega-fire complexes that become the size of small countries. Once these fires are so big, it becomes very difficult to do anything about them.”
More wildfires create more CO2 and more brown carbon that result in more global warming that results in more lightning strikes creating more wildfires resulting in more global warming thawing more permafrost allowing more emissions of CO2 and methane resulting in more warming, creating many more feedback loops.