[Convolutional]

> every normal weather event

San Francisco and the PNW being covered by smoke every summer is not a normal weather event, and now it is starting on the East coast. The east and southeast is also being hit harder by hurricanes, and they are not stopping at the Gulf of Mexico any more. These are just the events people have been able to see in the US in past years and they're not normal and with ever-increasing carbon output it is undoubtedly going to get worse.

I'll take the entire northeast being covered in smoke as an "over the top" claim that just came true.

[monknomo]

I feel like for US folks to take climate change seriously requires that climate change directly impact NYC and Washington DC so that the media and policy makers can have some lived experience.

Smoke in SF or Seattle doesn't seem to move the needle for whatever reason

[ldhough]

I live in DC, the haze from the smoke was crazy a few days ago.

[DrThunder]

What exactly is America going to do about Canada refusing to mitigate their forests correctly?

[selimthegrim]

The Australian wildfire smoke also had climatic effects on ozone when combined with Cl radicals.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00700-2

[DrThunder]

Actually it is and because you decided to cover forested areas in homes that usually get burned out regularly and stop the natural fires occurring you made it WORSE.

California has ALWAYS been a dry fire ridden state. This idea that it shouldn't be getting wildfires is ridiculous.