Wow! Unprecedented Wildfire on Frozen Continent Recalls Powerful Biblical Mixing of Fire and Ice

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz : Aug 15, 2017
Breaking Israel News

The image of fire and ice is a powerfully Biblical one, with its origins in the plague of hail that struck Egypt before the Exodus of the Jews. The Book of Exodus describes the balls of hail as containing flames.

(Greenland)—[Breaking Israel News] In an inexplicable mixture of fire and ice, a wildfire has been burning out of control in frozen Greenland, wreaking havoc with the ecosystem. The strange phenomenon of mixing opposing elements has its roots in the Bible, lending a deeper meaning to its reappearance. (Photo: A satellite image shows a wildfire burning in ice-covered Greenland, August 8-12/Twitter/@StefLhermitte/via BIN)

Even in the summer, 90 percent of Greenland is covered in a sheet of ice up to two miles thick, so when satellites first picked up thermal images indicating a large fire in late July, scientists thought it was an error in the data. It wasn't until a pilot in a small airplane actually spotted the blaze on July 31 that scientists realized there was a problem.

The blaze, covering about two square miles, is unprecedented and nothing similar to this has been recorded in the cold island nation since satellite monitoring began in 2000. NASA called it "an unusual event"...

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