Well, I don't know that I'd wear a mask in these conditions, but I can't really fault schools, etc for cancelling outdoor events this week while air quality is so poor. I know my brother, who works outdoors as much as he works indoors as a sr pest control tech for Orkin uses a bandana frequently when we're dealing with smoky/hazy conditions like the folks in the mid-Atlantic are currently experiencing.
Why do you insist on showing your inability to see past your ego wherever you post? Are you so triggered by the mention of masks that you can't see straight? Did a mask beat you up as a kid?
Ignoring climate change is bizarre. It has nothing to do with how you struggled personally over Covid and whatever happened in your country. Nobody is restricting your version of “freedom” .. I can go outside as much as I like and so can other Cdns. Most of us aren’t because it’s disgusting. In Canada we have never had this amount of fires in a lot of provinces for weeks now.
I’m mildly freaking out about the fact that here in Forest Hills I have all my windows closed, but I can smell smoke everywhere. I made one quick run up the block (wearing my mask) to get a sandwich from my local deli and came right back home. It’s abysmal outside. Stay safe, everyone here in NY.
The dry conditions are making the fires easier to start too.
When things were really bad here at the beginning of May the first weekend most of the smoke was from the fire in Edson, not even the one that started just south of my city that saw one of my co-workers evacuated for a week and a half. We never got any significant smoke from the fire close to us. We sure got a lot from the Fox Creek fires though (it has a different name because 3 different fires ended up combining at one point but I can't remember it).
Most of Alberta's fires at the beginning of May were from lightning strikes because we had thunderstorms. The one south of where I live was probably human set because someone ignored a fire ban. If we had had rain or any kind of moisture at all between February and May 22nd when it finally rained for 2 days maybe things would have been different this spring but we didn't and they weren't. No moisture outside of snow melt that occurred way earlier than normal is a sign of climate change. And I did wear a mask outside for 2 weeks straight because otherwise I couldn't breathe and I didn't want to be one of the many people clogging up our already overworked hospital for smoke inhalation. My mom even wore a mask and she still ended up with an ear and sinus infection because of how stuffed up she was from the smoke.
It's the orange that kills me. There is something about the sky being that color that makes it seem like we're living on an alien planet and it really mentally drains me.
All the places I go camping no longer allow campfires even if you buy the wood from them. It's been like this for a while due to drought.
I think the answer to that is undoubtedly yes. Having a massive whiny baby hissy fit strop over masks is very on brand for PC.
I don't know if this one has been caused by humans but wildfires don't have to be necessarily started by humans.
Some wildfires are caused by natural events, like lightning strikes.
Clumsy wording on my part, absolutely. Missing the "are also".
To that point: an area close to Berlin also has a wildfire again. Or had over the weekend, I don't know if they managed to put it out by now but my point is that there were occasional forest fires in Brandenburg but ever since 2019, fires occurred more or less annually and always in an area not far to Berlin which has not been the case before. Additionally, the highest wildfire danger alert for Brandenburg has been getting issued as early as April. 2019 was also when spring and summer started to be unusually dry.
I live in one of the most conservative provinces in Canada and most of the people I know still believe climate change is real. Also how do you know what our weather patterns are when you aren't even here? This spring has been warmer above average since the snow melted across the country. We had 30 degree Celsius temperatures at the beginning of May! That's 15-20 degrees warmer than normal for the time of year. We're looking at 2-3 days of 30 degree temperatures for the next few days which is 10 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year at least. Stop talking about Canadian weather patterns like you know what you're talking about when you don't even live here. I don't know what caused the fires out east, I don't even know what caused the fire that just crossed the Alberta/BC border that's put a huge chunk of the area west of here on an evacuation alert, but I do know that a lack of rain makes the ground and trees dry and helps fires to spread faster and after the relief we got over May long weekend (May 22nd for the Americans) it's once again been completely dry. 2 days of non stop rain was great but we need more and all we're getting instead is more heat.
We've had a campfire ban kick in every summer for over ten years now. Usually in August in - this year, the ban came in yesterday.
And global heating renders those natural events far more likely to happen, too. There may have been a lot of noise in certain quarters about the Black Summer fires here being caused by arson, but post-fire analysis has shown that that was not the case. The majority of the big fires were the result of lightning strikes following severe drought, intensified by stuck weather systems that were holding back the rains.
No, we don't have that kind of tree. Most of the fires in Canada are a result of a warmer than average winter, a smaller than average snow pack, and a dryer than average spring. The fires in Nova Scotia had the advantage of a lot of dead trees, and debris from the Hurricane Fiona last fall that helped them spread quickly, and burn fast.
Denying climate change to own the libs. Congratulations.
We don't have the orange skies, but its worse than yesterday early today.
