I knew when they were talking about how hot this summer was going to be, when the temperatures were spiking in spring, that there were going to be days that were both hot and hazy. I could feel it coming. They don’t happen often here so a few times in my past have been memorable.
Anyhow, I knew there were going to be days that were both overcast and over 80 degrees, but I had no idea it was going to be from the fucking Pacific Northwest being on fire. Earlier this month Vancouver BC had a bunch of wildfires that sent smoke south of Seattle to where I live. Then there’s yesterday, when Eastern Washington caught fire so badly that ash was raining on cars reminiscent of the explosion of Mt. St. Helens.
So, climate change denialists, if you wanna keep up the bluster, you’re gonna have to put in some extra legwork. Vacuum the haze out of the sky. Clean all our cars. Blow little fans on us, install AC for us everywhere we are, everywhere we’re burning up, and tell us “haha, sure is reasonable out today! Nothing of note here.”
Get a move on, boys. Half the world’s on fire and the other half is drowning.
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Half the world on fire the other half drowning? Greenman3610 /Peter Sinclair of the excellent Climate Denial Crocks blog / youtube series fame has this update which gives a bit of an answer for this here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjxe14saWU
Among other places & as you probly already know.
D’oh! Was looking for right video and couldn’t find it to link so not Peter Sinclair / Greenman3610 after all, sorry. Still a good clip but by “Euro News Wire”” instead.
Afraid my google-fu failed me. Sure I saw a more USA focused clip on this via somewhere like Greenman’s channel a few days ago.
Wow that climate science video was more interesting than I expected. Thanks for the link, even if it wasn’t quite your aim.
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No worries! Thanks for your blogging. 🙂
Aww! That’s the first time I’ve been thanked for blogging, as far as I recall. So nice.
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