Clearly wildfire smoke entering Canada

  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    As a WA state resident, believe me… We are paying for it. And we ain’t getting our money back.

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    3 months ago

    And then Americans have the nerve to get pissy with Canada when their smoke gets over here. No offers to help, no well wishes. Just complaints. Typical.

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    3 months ago

    The people emitting the carbon dioxide should pay for it, since climate change is responsible for much of the fire.

    (This statement is not in disagreement with the post. See list.)

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    3 months ago

    Since global climate change is a liberal hoax, maybe liberal Americans should foot the bill…

    Or some such bullshit according to Trump and conservative Americans

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    3 months ago

    Damn those all seem huge. Are fires and the resulting smoke a lot bigger than I think, or is the world smaller?

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      3 months ago

      Probably a little bit of both. Anecdotally, the fires and smoke columns are probably bigger than you realize. This is a pic from some time ago of a 10,000m tall smoke column from a fire barely 24 hours old and less than 100kms away.

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        3 months ago

        I mean, I’m no stranger to wildfires and smoke where i live, it’s just… even when I look at giant clouds covering the sky, my brain says “I mean, that’s big but there’s no way it’s significant-on-a-global-scale big.” But some of those smoke clouds look the be the size of a small state. And the fires themselves. I would’ve thought they’d just be pinpricks of light if anything, not those angry big blotches. I think i just need to recalibrate what “big” means.

        It doesn’t help that I live in a large state. When you can drive for 9 hours in a straight line and not cross a state border, nothing seems THAT big, you know?

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    We should rake our forests more.

    I remember a recent year that California was on fire. Here we were watching the AQI to see whether we needed to stay indoors, or have a bug-out bag ready. I remember getting a call from my dad in Missouri saying that the smoke from our fires was all the way over there.

    I think it was the year that Trump criticized us for failing to rake our forests, as if our virgin woods were the same thing as a golf course.