Current Events > More than 1/3 of the US pop now under air qualify alert from Canadian smoke

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/27/us/canada-wildfire-smoke-great-lakes/index.html

I never imagined such thing happening, least of all the source being Canada.
What is this, 1812?

Requiem posted...

I never imagined such thing happening, least of all the source being Canada.
What is this, 1812?

repeat of the year 1812.

and it never gotten this bad.

maggie needs coffee ice cream.

Does the sky look like Mars or Hell again?

Stuff like this is like the panic button on how messed up the Earth is getting...its getting to be you have to legit live under a rock to not see how big a threat Global warming is becoming when its becoming that you can't even breath outside in most of the country...and we are on the verge of just living becoming a state that we thought was only something from the movies and most are just shrugging like its just how it is.

Yeah, its finally reached my state as of yesterday morning. Looks hazy.

Necronmon posted...

Stuff like this is like the panic button on how messed up the Earth is getting...its getting to be you have to legit live under a rock to not see how big a threat Gobal warming is becoming when its becoming that you can't even breath outside in most of the country...

Lmao, as someone from BC this has been going on for years, global warming or otherwise.

Welcome to the party y'all.

https://www.airnow.gov/national-maps/

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/0/AAAgM2AAEnKy.jpg

Ngl... if something like this was to happen, I thought it'd be from the forest fire in California / SW states.

From the map, looks like the people who live in the most boring states in the US (and Alaska and Hawaii) dodged the bullet.

What... what kind of Canadian smoke?

Zikten posted...

Does the sky look like Mars or Hell again?

more like mars. less like hell.

then again maybe we're all in hell.

Feels like if Trump or another Republican gets to be president the responds would not be TO far off from this with how they love overreacting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3874lxv4lI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlJ7RsjZWzw

Requiem posted...

https://www.airnow.gov/national-maps/

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/0/AAAgM2AAEnKy.jpg

Ngl... if something like this was to happen, I thought it'd be from the forest fire in California / SW states.

From the map, looks like the people who live in the most boring states in the US (and Alaska and Hawaii) dodged the bullet.

Looks like Spain and Portugal getting some smoke now as well.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/map-canadian-wildfires-2023-where-are-the-fires-ontario-quebec/

To put it in perspective, an area the size of Belgium has burned already this year.

Requiem posted...

I never imagined such thing happening, least of all the source being Canada.
What is this, 1812?

Trump kind of took over the whole world for it for a while, but Canada has a hyper-conservative PM who got rid of most of the funding for dealing with wildfires a couple of years ago. This sort of thing was *very* given for anyone who pays attention to Canadian politics. That and has a basic sense of cause and effect, unlike Trudeau.

ellis123 posted...

Canada has a hyper-conservative PM who got rid of most of the funding for dealing with wildfires a couple of years ago.

it has came and bit Canadian's and US in the ass when they did this.

Necronmon posted...

Stuff like this is like the panic button on how messed up the Earth is getting...its getting to be you have to legit live under a rock to not see how big a threat Global warming is becoming when its becoming that you can't even breath outside in most of the country...and we are on the verge of just living becoming a state that we thought was only something from the movies and most are just shrugging like its just how it is.

Idk...my step-dad, who is a truck driver, says the planet has been doing this forever and he has tons of YouTube videos to back it up

Looks like I'm not going outside to exercise anytime soon. It's a little uncomfortable to breath this shitty air.

Requiem posted...

https://www.airnow.gov/national-maps/

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/0/AAAgM2AAEnKy.jpg

Ngl... if something like this was to happen, I thought it'd be from the forest fire in California / SW states.

From the map, looks like the people who live in the most boring states in the US (and Alaska and Hawaii) dodged the bullet.

Nah, they may also get hit with a different bullet if the UPS strike doesnt hurt them.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773878/heatwaves-energy-shortages-north-america-electricity-grid
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80491433

Maybe everyone should move to Hawaii or Alaska, unless something bad happens like a volcano eruption or another invasion of a certain country due to Alaskas previous ownership origins

https://www.outlookindia.com/international/kilauea-one-of-the-world-s-most-active-volcanoes-begins-erupting-after-3-month-pause-news-293262
https://www.wionews.com/world/why-did-russia-sell-alaska-to-the-united-states-434289/amp

Great, so after 3 years of fucking being cooped up cause of Covid lockdowns and long winters I'm now getting screwed out of another summer because Canada made the fucking air toxic.

I swear I'm about to have a fucking mental breakdown if I'm not allowed to go live my goddamn life

Extremely common Canadian L

https://twitter.com/NeoWokio/status/1666538814238605315

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Wait wtf!? They're just monitoring the fires, not actively combating them? No wonder it's gotten so bad. Fucking A.

No sarcasm.
Realistically, is there anything that can be done?

Like, California has pretty big fires often, and those seems to go on for months even with everything that the state & nation do.

And the current one (or series? what's the proper term) in Canada seems so much bigger than California's.

Requiem posted...

No sarcasm.
Realistically, is there anything that can be done?

Like, California has pretty big fires often, and those seems to go on for months even with everything that the state & nation do.

And the current one (or series? what's the proper term) in Canada seems so much bigger than California's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaZhJ6w9C_4

/s

Requiem posted...

No sarcasm.
Realistically, is there anything that can be done?

Like, California has pretty big fires often, and those seems to go on for months even with everything that the state & nation do.

And the current one (or series? what's the proper term) in Canada seems so much bigger than California's.

Lots of firefighters from other countries are being shipped in. US, Australia, even South Africa are pitching in.

Man, guess everyone might as well wear those hazmat suits till this blows over.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/3/4/AAcuNqAAEnWG.jpg