i’m definitely pretty concerned that this might just be a thing a lot of the US and Canada have to learn to live with, and that it could offset a lot of the air quality gains that were won through environmental legislation and make things generally miserable again. it’s already been the case this year that prolonged periods of going outside in, say, Edmonton was just not possible due to how bad the smoke was. it was also the case in a lot of California and the PNW during the coronavirus years.
an unfun combination of these is the prospect of these huge wildfires starting to burn up there and contributing to something like that. it’s absolutely possible in theory; as far north as where there’s tundra there have still been fires of several hundred thousand acres.
i’m definitely pretty concerned that this might just be a thing a lot of the US and Canada have to learn to live with, and that it could offset a lot of the air quality gains that were won through environmental legislation and make things generally miserable again. it’s already been the case this year that prolonged periods of going outside in, say, Edmonton was just not possible due to how bad the smoke was. it was also the case in a lot of California and the PNW during the coronavirus years.
I’m worried the permafrost regions of Canada could have the same explosive methane releases as Siberia, but I’m not a geologist.
an unfun combination of these is the prospect of these huge wildfires starting to burn up there and contributing to something like that. it’s absolutely possible in theory; as far north as where there’s tundra there have still been fires of several hundred thousand acres.