Brush fires in Britain?
Brush fires in Britain?
19 July 2013
published by www.smartplanet.com
United Kingdom — You normally couldnt set Britains countryside alight even if you had a flame thrower and a Molotov cocktail. Its rained every day since I moved here – in 1999. Thatll douse your average flicked cigarette.
It all changed this month though. Alas: Sun! Heat! Fire!
Walloped by what news reports are calling the longest heat wave in years, the number of fire hazards in the U.K. has just skyrocketed. Youre now getting scenes that look straight out of California or Australia. Yet check out the picture above and the video below. Theyre from the hills of Wales.
The grass fire and others like it are nowhere near the scale of the tragic conflagrations that have ignited in more expansive regions of the world.
But theyre notable nonetheless, simply for their presence in a normally sodden land.
And now for the inevitable question: Is this a sign of man made global warming? Or is it simply a natural return to what Brits have for 14 soggy years dubiously told me used to be the glorious British summers?
