• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
    6·
    19 小时前

    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.

  • Sarothazrom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 天前

    don’t worry, USA cut all of the ability for the EPA to do anything, so this will definitely get better.

    • psilotop@lemmy.world
      17·
      21 小时前

      I understand the naysayers’ point but a functioning EPA would work WITH Canada. We could, you know, be a good neighbor. Together both nations could help predict fires, track them, respond together, etc. The current environment of aggression is not the only possible course of action. Unfortunately, there is no hope in that changing this moment.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      23 小时前

      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.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    2·
    16 小时前

    I went outside yesterday, and suddenly was breathing in burnt Canada. It smelled like burnt plastic TBH, and the sky looked like it was colored movie Mexico. Reminds me of a few years ago when the same thing happened. I hope nobody’s died.

  • arctanthrope@lemmy.world
    82·
    1 天前

    when I was a little kid watching LotR for the first time and Boromir described Mordor by saying “the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume” I thought, okay I get what you’re going for, but even for this setting that’s a little over the top melodramatic, dontcha think?

    now I can’t leave my house because the greed of evil men has literally corrupted the very essence of the Earth and blotted out the Sun

  • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    24 小时前

    I woke up thinking the house was on fire, the smell of smoke was so thick. I’m not even in the worst parts.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    58·
    1 天前

    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.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          4·
          18 小时前

          There was a head rush that felt kinda neat at first. Guessing because nicotine binds to the ACE2 receptors, which play a role in ATP reuse (iirc), ATP being the big energy molecule that powers the current multicellular life, so it’s similar to a bit of oxygen deprivation in that available ATP is reduced.

          But then the body just expresses more ACE2 receptors to compensate, so you stop getting the head rushes. This happens fairly quickly, too, like you might get them for like half of your first pack of smokes before the “feels better after a smoke” is more about getting rid of nicotine withdrawal than any positive feelings (if you enjoy the altered feeling of a head rush).

        • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          21 小时前

          It’s why we smoke them if we got them.

          And the cigarette break is on of the few acceptable “gimme a minutes”

    • Canajan@piefed.caEnglish
      2·
      1 天前

      Your inept administration in Michigan wrote a letter to Carney about the smoke. Fucking idiots.

  • Dvixen@lemmy.world
    3·
    21 小时前

    Oof. That’s horrendous. Hoping for a steady nó lightning few days to assist.

    We had days of 999 (where the scale stopped) during the Australian bushfires in 2019, and anything over 150 was already brutal. Above 300 and you feel like you can chew the air.

  • jtrek@startrek.website
    38·
    1 天前

    There are people responsible for climate change. We should feed them to the fires. Perhaps it will appease the gods.

  • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
    42·
    2 天前

    Welcome to what the west coast has been dealing with for many years now. There are more important people in the east maybe we’ll start to think about trying to start to take this seriously.

    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 天前

      We’ve been dealing with wildfire smoke for years now, our genius Conservative provincial government has been cutting the budget for the services that prevent and put them out.

      The fires are in Ontario, just north-ish of Thunder Bay.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        23 小时前

        And the genius Federal liberals have thrown out most emissions laws and taxes to reduce carbon emissions and pollution. So the whole country can be a toxic shithole like Alberta.

      • fartographer@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 天前

        fold in the cheese

        Then I don’t know how to be any clearer! You take that thing that’s in your hand, and you-

        If you say “sweep the forest” one more time-

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      15·
      1 天前

      This has been happening here for the last three years.

      The problem is being attributed to the disappearance of some mystical “forest rakers” that no one has ever met.

      • GenitalHurricane@lemmy.world
        3·
        21 小时前

        Being outside earlier today was awful, I had an appointment I couldn’t miss, but I’ve got a MERV13 filter in my HVAC at home running non stop to circulate and filter, one HEPA filter on each floor of the house, and one in my office. Indoor AQI got up to 40 downstairs yesterday so I set all the purifiers to max overnight and I’m down to 10-15 this morning. We are not going outside today lol staying in our safe little bubble

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      1·
      17 小时前

      I’ve always said New York City and Philadelphia ought to belong to New Jersey, and this map seems to have taken my advice.