Posted on 07/01/2023 5:21:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It was a smell that invoked a memory. Both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire world.
“It’s been very apocalyptic feeling, because in California the dialogue is like, ‘Oh, it’s normal. This is just what happens on the West Coast,’ but it’s very much not normal here,” Kuchlbauer said.
As Earth’s climate continues to change from heat-trapping gases spewed into the air, ever fewer people are out of reach from the billowing and deadly fingers of wildfire smoke, scientists say. Already wildfires are consuming three times more of the United States and Canada each year than in the 1980s and studies predict fire and smoke to worsen.
It’s so bad that perhaps the term “wildfire” also needs to be rethought, suggested Woodwell Climate Research Center senior scientist Jennifer Francis.
“We can’t really call them wildfires anymore,” Francis said. “To some extent they’re just not, they’re not wild. They’re not natural anymore. We are just making them more likely. We’re making them more intense.”
Several scientists told the AP that the problem of smoke and wildfires will progressively worsen until the world significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions, which has not happened despite years of international negotiations and lofty goals.
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Climate change causes arson?
Right. Combine poor forest management with arson and we see the result.
Poor ol’ Seth
He can’t distinguish between his ass and a hole in the ground.
He earns his daily bagel churning out propaganda while being lashed into submission by his political masters.
Absolutely nothing unusual about these Canadian fires.
The current crop of “scientists” are also part of the “new abnormal”. They can’t get by without government grants so they all pimp the politicians’ narratives.
EXACTLY
Scientists = “experts”.
Every article that cites an expert or a scientist should be required to list that person’s sources of research funding.
We’ve had smokey air from the Canadian fires here in NEPA for almost a month now, on and off. I’ve been around for a while, and have never seen anything like this.
Something’s gone radically wrong. And it ain’t climate change.
Well yeah, experts said so. What are you? Anti Science?
“Climate Scientists” have arsonists set fires so they can scream, “See!!! See!!!!! I told you so!!!!”
Asspress is such a pile of lies and manure.
Let’s be real....just like all other DEM causes...the media is the message. And the mesage is....”you will obey”.
Shouldn’t TruDope be extinguishing these fires to cut back on Canadian CO2 production?
They used covid to kill our lungs, then lethal fake vaxes to kill off the immune systems, now we have wildfires with dangerous chemicals to kill our lungs. What next? Don’t forget the toxic smoke over there in the EU emanating from Muzzie uprisings. Refugees, my arse.
Maybe Zelensky will fire on the nuke plant. Yeah, the ought to work.
What I want to know is whoever is pulling their strings, although I most likely know the answer.
“We are just making them more likely. We’re making them more intense.”“
Yeah it’s global warming. It NOT allowing fuel to build up until there’s an explosion. Global warming: It causes EVERYTHING!!!
Not clearing out the Dead Wood makes fires worse. It also makes a lot of other things worse.
Well, lean out the excess brush and fallen wood, and stop the arsonists and things would be much better.
Find the terrorists ( or the government fire starters) and the fires will stop.
I’m all for clearing out the dead wood. Let’s start in D.C.
CC
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