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Places like D.C. and New York were blanketed with smoke this summer – but why? Let’s dive into the summer’s fire season, why it was so bad in unexpected places, and what it might mean for the future. Weathered host Maiya May explains.
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C'est la vie. Que será será.
Can we stop burning fossil fuels fast enough?
Longer video on this please!
Fires due happen in Northern Ontario and Quebec just the winds were bringing the smoke further south than usual
After the DENIAL of climate change, comes the PANIC, as the horrible effects of rapid climate change become more common!
We in the west are more accustomed to wildfires but nonetheless it was a record breaking year for us by a long shot in terms of area burnt.
Our previous record was 13540 square kilometers burned (2018), this year we burned about 25000 square kilometers. Nearly doubling our previous record.
Easy solution everyone is missing. Just cut down all the trees and there won't be any wild fires. Also think of all the new logging jobs that would be created. Good idea to help the economy. Sure a few less trees might hurt the environment, but that's what the rain forest is for. We should put stricter restrictions on those forests. I can't really deal with another summer of wild fire smoke.
We need longer vids
Some of these fires stuck around because of the peat in the ground, northeast is ripe for 100 year fires
this is buuuuullllshiiiiii
MOST of these fires are HUMAN caused. The term "wildfire" lost its true definition over the last 50 years.
Would fire were at one point natural combustion of SUPER dry materials under hot and humidless conditions. NOW these fires ARE HUMAN CAUSED. Facts. We humans SUCK.😢
I live in Oregon, I fought wild fire for about 11 years. I could have told you this ten+ years ago. The problem is… human beings don't listen because of capitalism and neo liberal hegemony. So, now we sleep in this bed instead of some hospitable one. But we all kind of knew this, deep down inside.
And this is just the beginning!
Clear cutting is not the answer
Lots of these fires set on purpose
Yep time to make fire roads and firebreaks …
Bull. A single degree of warming over 150 years isn’t suddenly going to make more wildfires. C mon people.
Even though it looks like it's the future,
it's really a short, short time from now.
Get used to the new normal.
It is a climate they change. Nothing can be done about climate change. If not, how did we have ice ages before? Stop drinking the climate poison.
Also activists were playing with matches.
Moreso shitty logging practices, less climate change. Logging companies leave too much debris on the ground, leading to added fuel for regularly occurring wildfires.
Probably time to stop widening highways 🤔
Eventually we'll have to wear N95 masks during summer fire seasons
180 fires broke out at the same time is arson intent on proving climate change. Pure evil funded by pure evil .