People Share Apocalyptic Photos Of Sao Paulo Which Went Pitch Black During Daytime From Amazon Fires
Imagine waking up in the middle of the day only to realize it’s still the middle of the night. Only it isn’t and it’s actually the sky that’s covered with such a thick layer of black smoke, barely any sun rays can get through. Now, this may sound like some sort of apocalyptic scenario but that’s the chilling reality that the residents of São Paulo, Brazil, had to experience.
On Monday, Brazil’s most populous city suddenly plunged into darkness as thick black clouds from the raging Amazon forest fires slowly crept over the busy metropolis.
On Monday, Brazil’s busiest city has been completely covered by thick dark clouds
In an interview with Folha De S. Paulo, meteorologist Franco Nadal Villela said the darkening was caused by a cold front from the east of São Paulo meeting with the fine dust brought in from the fires in Mato Grosso do Sul.
See the eerie Gotham City-esque view in the video below
Residents have been reporting the dark clouds since around 3 PM
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The darkening lasted over an hour before slowly creeping away.
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And it doesn’t end just there – some residents collected rainwater that was black as tar
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Even though the fires are burning over 1,700 miles away from Sao Paulo, the winds still managed to carry the black dust this great distance.
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Here’s how people reacted to the photos
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Share on FacebookThis is what happens when you elect a far right dickwad for your president. I should know... I live in the US. We're all screwed.
I hope Brazil’s president gets respiratory illness from all that smoke. I wonder how the poor aboriginals living in the rainforests are faring right now?
Load More Replies...At least Jair Bolsonaro can't deny this is happening when the cities are affected like this. You'll remember that he said that climate change science is a plot by Marxists. I doubt he'll change his tune (witness how he has tried to shift blame), but maybe people will start to realize that they shouldn't listen to blowhards like him.
Don’t underestimate what conservatives will deny. Seeing isn’t believing to them.
Load More Replies...This is what the world has come to. We need change and fast if we want to keep the earth going.
Great, so you’re ready to make some steps. The first would be to never eat red meat. Can you do that? You might, but a lot of people who say “we need to change!” would have a thousand excuses as to why that “won’t help” and how it’s someone else’s fault or not enough. Those people are just as responsible for this as the farmers who set that rainforest on fire to use for their cattle and livestock-feed farming.
Load More Replies...I live in Sao Paulo, and yes, the sky was dark at 3:00 P.M. After the rain, the puddles had dark water and the water that my mother collects to watering plants was dark, too. I'm allergic, and I am suffering a lot because the air is horrible, my daughters are having allergic crisis, my husband, my coworkers... and there are idiots saying that "nobody is having problems..." of course, because they can speak for everyone that lives here.
Also as a Brazilian citizen: I live in São Paulo. I can tell you, it was eerie. Smoke from the Amazon fires reaching over 4000km away (almost 3000 miles).
Forest fires happen, but this year they are worse, Summer in Europe is hot but this year its hotter,hurricanes and typhoons happen but they are getting more frequent and more sever, yet people still believe climate change isnt real even though they have no evidence for that opinion and 99% of scientist have lots of evidence to the contrary. Its real, its happening and we need to act now!
How can they not stop the fires already? And for God's sake bring on long prison or even life sentence for everyone responsible for this fire. People need to learn the harsh truth, you mess with the climate and accelerate pollution there are consequences. Of course there are consequences, but you can't teach some people are just toooo stupid, they need to be scared with jail sentence because there are still fools who don't believe in climate change.
I live 96km from São Paulo. I had a wonderful rainy dark day but didn't knew why. I could say "adapt and survive", but the second one is a lie.
The root of this is mostly poverty, partly greed. Many of people doing all this slash and burn in Brazil are so desperate to make a living (from cattle mostly, in this case), that they are compelled to destroy the rain forest to create grazing ground. Others are so greedy to increase their profits that they willingly do the same. If given a viable alternative, one that provides a liveable income, it might stop, or at least massively reduce, the problem. Then attention can be turned to stopping the greedy bastards.
*Of course nothing is wrong with the planet, people are getting hysterical over nothing*,cue in sarcasm.and some idiots will say there's nothing wrong with the planet, continue with your old habits and watch your habits die slowly.
Life is going extinct faster than when the dinosaurs died, I'm glad I don't have any kids but it's breaking my heart when I see what mankind is doing to earth and ourself.
Oh no.. This is too horrifying... Is there any action to put down the fire?.. Why media keep it silence..?
It baffles me that someone would burn down that forest, I don’t understand the thought process or lack thereof
As NASA observed: "As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.) Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to estimates from the Global Fire Emissions Database, a research project that compiles and analyzes NASA data." This is normal.
Now, Brazil is one very large country: the distance from Sao Paolo to the Amazon rain forest is around 2,800 km or close to 1750 miles! Just as with the smoke from the fires in Indonesia a few years ago, this will make its way around the world. Everything is interconnected and we humans are capable of great and mindless destruction. Has the time not come for us to put our collected smarts together in order to at least try to maintain our planet in a way that it will be possible for humans to live here in a few thousand years from now? I'm with Greta.
I just can't believe that the president of Brazil wants an apology before receiving funding and aid from Britain. It seems politicians are acting like children but it's our world that's their play ground. Scary s**t.
Amazon is reckless with burning returned products! What will Jeff bevos do to correct this before the world is dark?!
Humanity: Now that we have taken screwing up the forest cover to the next elvel, fed plastic to plankton (another major source of O2), let us see what we else we can do to make our own existence miserable!
I live in Manaus, which is the capital of the state of Amazonas. We do have a problem with fire here. For instance, back in 2016, it was so bad during summer that we could barely breathe. BUT, I can't support fake news. São Paulo is so far away from here, that it would be like blaming the fires in California for smoke in Florida. Also, since our current president just got ellected this year, we have to hold accountable not only him, but the past presidents too, for not doing what had to be done. THIS PROBLEM IS NOT NEW. Hopefully with all this international pressure the one we have right now will put an end to it.
The ironic thing is what my daughter told me about Sao Paolo when she lived in Brazil: The light pollution at night was so intense that you could stand anywhere in the city and be able to read a newspaper. Sigh. So many ills people bring to the world from sheer selfishness.
You're just a iluded and manipulated people. It has been proven to be a phenomenon caused by a cold front and the sky darkened by the pollution generated by the city itself. Sao Paulo is thousands of kilometers (miles) from the Amazon. You are just "cattle" as we call it here in Brazil. Hypocrites who call for an end to deforestation and do the same or even worse in their own countries.
BoredPanda it is time to do some research, the cloud was that dark because of the fire in BOLIVIA. There is no way the smoke from THOUSANDS OF MILES away could have done that. This was debunked already. Are you guys planing on doing an article about the fire in BOLIVIA as well? It's way worst than the one in BR (which btw is below the national average for the past 15 years).
Deforestation is climate change. I see what you’re trying to say but the connection to climate change is that they are helping to cause it.
Load More Replies...This is what happens when you elect a far right dickwad for your president. I should know... I live in the US. We're all screwed.
I hope Brazil’s president gets respiratory illness from all that smoke. I wonder how the poor aboriginals living in the rainforests are faring right now?
Load More Replies...At least Jair Bolsonaro can't deny this is happening when the cities are affected like this. You'll remember that he said that climate change science is a plot by Marxists. I doubt he'll change his tune (witness how he has tried to shift blame), but maybe people will start to realize that they shouldn't listen to blowhards like him.
Don’t underestimate what conservatives will deny. Seeing isn’t believing to them.
Load More Replies...This is what the world has come to. We need change and fast if we want to keep the earth going.
Great, so you’re ready to make some steps. The first would be to never eat red meat. Can you do that? You might, but a lot of people who say “we need to change!” would have a thousand excuses as to why that “won’t help” and how it’s someone else’s fault or not enough. Those people are just as responsible for this as the farmers who set that rainforest on fire to use for their cattle and livestock-feed farming.
Load More Replies...I live in Sao Paulo, and yes, the sky was dark at 3:00 P.M. After the rain, the puddles had dark water and the water that my mother collects to watering plants was dark, too. I'm allergic, and I am suffering a lot because the air is horrible, my daughters are having allergic crisis, my husband, my coworkers... and there are idiots saying that "nobody is having problems..." of course, because they can speak for everyone that lives here.
Also as a Brazilian citizen: I live in São Paulo. I can tell you, it was eerie. Smoke from the Amazon fires reaching over 4000km away (almost 3000 miles).
Forest fires happen, but this year they are worse, Summer in Europe is hot but this year its hotter,hurricanes and typhoons happen but they are getting more frequent and more sever, yet people still believe climate change isnt real even though they have no evidence for that opinion and 99% of scientist have lots of evidence to the contrary. Its real, its happening and we need to act now!
How can they not stop the fires already? And for God's sake bring on long prison or even life sentence for everyone responsible for this fire. People need to learn the harsh truth, you mess with the climate and accelerate pollution there are consequences. Of course there are consequences, but you can't teach some people are just toooo stupid, they need to be scared with jail sentence because there are still fools who don't believe in climate change.
I live 96km from São Paulo. I had a wonderful rainy dark day but didn't knew why. I could say "adapt and survive", but the second one is a lie.
The root of this is mostly poverty, partly greed. Many of people doing all this slash and burn in Brazil are so desperate to make a living (from cattle mostly, in this case), that they are compelled to destroy the rain forest to create grazing ground. Others are so greedy to increase their profits that they willingly do the same. If given a viable alternative, one that provides a liveable income, it might stop, or at least massively reduce, the problem. Then attention can be turned to stopping the greedy bastards.
*Of course nothing is wrong with the planet, people are getting hysterical over nothing*,cue in sarcasm.and some idiots will say there's nothing wrong with the planet, continue with your old habits and watch your habits die slowly.
Life is going extinct faster than when the dinosaurs died, I'm glad I don't have any kids but it's breaking my heart when I see what mankind is doing to earth and ourself.
Oh no.. This is too horrifying... Is there any action to put down the fire?.. Why media keep it silence..?
It baffles me that someone would burn down that forest, I don’t understand the thought process or lack thereof
As NASA observed: "As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.) Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to estimates from the Global Fire Emissions Database, a research project that compiles and analyzes NASA data." This is normal.
Now, Brazil is one very large country: the distance from Sao Paolo to the Amazon rain forest is around 2,800 km or close to 1750 miles! Just as with the smoke from the fires in Indonesia a few years ago, this will make its way around the world. Everything is interconnected and we humans are capable of great and mindless destruction. Has the time not come for us to put our collected smarts together in order to at least try to maintain our planet in a way that it will be possible for humans to live here in a few thousand years from now? I'm with Greta.
I just can't believe that the president of Brazil wants an apology before receiving funding and aid from Britain. It seems politicians are acting like children but it's our world that's their play ground. Scary s**t.
Amazon is reckless with burning returned products! What will Jeff bevos do to correct this before the world is dark?!
Humanity: Now that we have taken screwing up the forest cover to the next elvel, fed plastic to plankton (another major source of O2), let us see what we else we can do to make our own existence miserable!
I live in Manaus, which is the capital of the state of Amazonas. We do have a problem with fire here. For instance, back in 2016, it was so bad during summer that we could barely breathe. BUT, I can't support fake news. São Paulo is so far away from here, that it would be like blaming the fires in California for smoke in Florida. Also, since our current president just got ellected this year, we have to hold accountable not only him, but the past presidents too, for not doing what had to be done. THIS PROBLEM IS NOT NEW. Hopefully with all this international pressure the one we have right now will put an end to it.
The ironic thing is what my daughter told me about Sao Paolo when she lived in Brazil: The light pollution at night was so intense that you could stand anywhere in the city and be able to read a newspaper. Sigh. So many ills people bring to the world from sheer selfishness.
You're just a iluded and manipulated people. It has been proven to be a phenomenon caused by a cold front and the sky darkened by the pollution generated by the city itself. Sao Paulo is thousands of kilometers (miles) from the Amazon. You are just "cattle" as we call it here in Brazil. Hypocrites who call for an end to deforestation and do the same or even worse in their own countries.
BoredPanda it is time to do some research, the cloud was that dark because of the fire in BOLIVIA. There is no way the smoke from THOUSANDS OF MILES away could have done that. This was debunked already. Are you guys planing on doing an article about the fire in BOLIVIA as well? It's way worst than the one in BR (which btw is below the national average for the past 15 years).
Deforestation is climate change. I see what you’re trying to say but the connection to climate change is that they are helping to cause it.
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