Sicily - which has already been brought to its knees by a prolonged heatwave - is battling wildfires that are threatening towns and cities across the island.
For people looking for a more realistic take…the last 48 hours are clear so this is 72 hours back… Not sure if that’s a data issue or the fires have gone out now.
the climate change is going slowly then all at once, now we are at the all at once phase
We need to be able to corid/crowd tag posts. Everyone should tag this as FAKE. It’s not fucking real.
Don’t tag it, report it. This post breaks Rule 6 of this community: no trolling.
Absurd … This is ludicrous and looks like a warring area on an RPG map. It’s 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 but unbelievable.
Its not real. This isn’t a satellite image of the wildfires. Theres an artist’s initials at the top of this “satellite image” (it is a satellite image, but the fires and smoke are drawn on).
Shame on OP for spreading disinformation.
To be fair, everyone can and will be tricked at some point by fake pictures, the post may have been a genuine attempt to inform.
But it definitely needs to be edited in the title and description once it’s clear that it’s misleading.
I was thinking this has to be a cgi image or exaggerated to see all the fires. That’s not a “struggling” island, its a total loss.
This is inaccurate.
Not saying shit’s not fucked up over there right now, but is this an artist rendering? Its got what looks like artist initials at the top and I can’t find this image anywhere else.
More fuel for the “climate change is a hoax” fire
It
almostdefinitely is. This happened with the last big Australian fires too. Here’s a an actual satellite photo of the Australian fires with overlaid red dots from NASA data for comparison.Note the complete lack of smoke or cloud obscuring anything in the OP image.
Edited to add: NASA photo + overlaid data from Sicily’s 2017 fires. Fewer fires, visible wind smoke trails.
Yeah, looks like a nighttime image of the island with some smoke added to it.
If these posts are trending then here it is no different than reddit if not worse.
It’s gotten pretty bad lately and by this point I do feel like I see more misinformation on here than on Reddit. Lemmy has successfully managed to become more like Reddit than Reddit itself.
It’s kinda sad, there were a few days in which it really felt like this space would be different, but right now, I either go on /sub and barely see any content because most of the communities I want to follow are fairly inactive, or I go on /all and it’s mostly americans calling eachother Nazis over the slightest political disagreement, middle-class doomers going on about how their lives are horrible even though they’re better off than most of the world and every “serious” community, whether it’s news or politics or etc. is filled to the brim with misinformation (and more doomers).
People are already circlejerking below about capitalism over this fake pic, nice, cheers.
We reap what we sow.
Yeesh, this is horrible. Looks like something you’d see in a movie
Today my house almost burned down, and yes I felt like I was in a movie while preparing the bags to evacuate just in case. Fortunately it didn’t come to that…
If anyone wants to see the actual situation here’s NASA’s live map: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/
and a guide on how to use it, what all the symbols mean etc: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=SSd7KnWN9CM
I was informed by conservative relatives that climate change was a Chinese hoax, which fair, that’s a pretty funny joke. But burning down Sicily seems like taking things a bit too far.
Clearly it is a Sicilian hoax…
oh god, the false flag conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day.
“Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!”
Yup. This has to be the most elaborate hoax since the moon landing.
This should be reported for misinformation. It’s a blatantly false image.
Fake picture is fake.
The farmers’ association, Coldiretti, said Sicily was facing an “unprecedented catastrophe and incalculable environmental damage”.
The minister for civil protection, Nello Musumeci, wrote on Facebook: “This is one of the hardest days in Italy’s history for 10 years. Climate change has hit our nation and demands that we all change our ways. There are no excuses.”
While there are indeed a great many forest fires happening around the world, and no shortage of them across Sicily, this is an artists rendering and not an actual satellite photo. The actual fires are FAR more localized, and this kind of hyper sensationalized reporting just does a disservice to the actual severity of the situation. It’s a big enough problem even without the sensationalism.
