As wildfires continue to rage in Western Canada, communities in affected areas and surrounding provinces have been blanketed by thick plumes of smoke, prompting air quality alerts extending into parts of the United States this week.
Smoke conditions in some parts of the U.S. Midwest have become so bad that the air quality has been categorized as “hazardous.”
Exposure to wildfire smoke has been found to cause early death and respiratory issues, says a 2024 report from Health Canada.
**FYI - the smoke map is updated regularly on the website.
Unfortunately, I feel this may become the new normal.
Not at all, climate change scientists miss one thing. This is only the beginning and they need to tell people this is probably the best it will ever get because it’s about to get a lot worse.
I get the sense they’re trying not to dishearten everyone with doomsday predictions.
Well thats the problem. They still think theyre living in a situation where we can stop it but its all being controlled and manipulated by capitalism. Climate Change scientists are not a multi trillion dollar industry. They have no real power or voices because they cant lobby the government.
Its even worst. Oil companies had scientists creating climate models since the 70s and suppressed them from the public.
To add on to this for over 100 years we have known about the potential effects of this industry.
It will be decades, maybe centuries, before these areas burn again. Still, Canada is very big and mostly trees.