Screenshot taken from PurpleAir. 150 and above is considered unhealthy, 300 and above is considered hazardous.
Wow! We’re officially the worst air quality in the world right now!
Take that China!
So much winning!
don’t worry, USA cut all of the ability for the EPA to do anything, so this will definitely get better.
The EPA can’t do anything about Canadian forest fires. Canadian Right wingers have cut firefighting budgets and dropped emissions laws to align with the USA, so this problem, which literally never happened before 5 years ago, will be the new summer experience for North America.
I cannot stress enough that Canada is a sovereign country and not under the jurisdiction of the EPA.
Oh yeah i know lol, im just bitching that the US has no way to do anything about this.
There are people responsible for climate change. We should feed them to the fires. Perhaps it will appease the gods.
It won’t work, but we should still try.
I don’t see any downsides. Proceed
it will create more smoke, now with maga-particles in the air.
674…is there even air in there?
Reminds me of the videos people made of the smoke in San Francisco in the style of blader runner 2049 during covid times
So how long until the boreal forests burn up and this ends?
Never, cause it’ll keep regrowing to burn again.
At some point a dust bowl or flood will rip away the topsoil after a fire, and the forest will stop growing back. It’ll just be a barren desert.
Of course then the dust and sand storms can still give you dust pneumonia, silicosis, and lung cancer, but technically that’s not the forests.
I swear chicago is at some sort of crux. no matter where the wildfires are we seem to get hit. north, south, east, or west.
They dont call it the windy city for nothing, you got all the cross streams.
The good news is the heat wave in Toronto has ended… things cooled down when the smoke blocked out the sun.
On Tuesday I was actually thinking “huh, we haven’t had smoke this year, that’s cool.” Wednesday morning… well shit there it is.
I came back from vacation this week, and it was quite a moment when I saw the sun rising in the morning, through a yellow haze, colored a fluorescent shade of “apocalypse pink.” Very reassuring, very comforting.
I should’ve stayed up in the mountains a while longer.
I was in NYC today. The visibility is bad, probably down to less than a mile sometimes, but the local airport says it was 2 miles.
The Hollywood filter has come to NYC
It was so much worse in the ‘80s in the L.A. basin. This smoke is nasty, but the layer of brown hazmat that laid over Los Angeles was awful.
You lived in the 1900s?!
We breathed the brown air.
Thats why we wore onions on our belts, but not yellow onions, because of the war…
I travelled up to Michigan to visit family and friends for a few weeks, as well as enjoy the lake. Can’t go outside because the air is, according to the news, “the equivalent of smoking 17 cigarettes for every hour you’re outside”.
Shits fucked up here right now.
What’s hilarious is watching people smoke cigarettes in this air.
And then they complain about the other smoke.
Damn and you don’t even get high what a ripoff
