Study Estimates 2023 Canadian Wildfire Smoke Caused 82,000 Premature Deaths Globally - eviltoast
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    4 days ago

    I think you misunderstand what constitutes normal forest fires compared to country wide wildfires that suffocate the entire continent 3 years in a row.

    This isn’t normal. It’s caused by a radical increase in global temperatures and a decrease in precipitation and weather patterns the likes of which we have never seen before.

    And this isn’t just affecting Canada. It’s worldwide.

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        4 days ago

        Yes. It’s a common reply to comments to point out that they don’t make sense, or defy rational thought.

        In your case, it’s pointing out that the wildfires we have experienced for 3 years in a row, where entire regions have had to be evacuated, villages nearly disappeared, where large areas of North America have faced extreme levels of smog pollution is… normal and long overdue. It goes against what every climatologist and other experts have said.

        So because of that, your statement comes across as ignorant and as denying climate change. That’s why people are baffled or upset at your statements.

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          In your case, it’s pointing out that the wildfires we have experienced for 3 years in a row, where entire regions have had to be evacuated, villages nearly disappeared, where large areas of North America have faced extreme levels of smog pollution is… normal and long overdue.

          Which I didn’t do. You imagined that, and then didn’t even mention what you’d imagined I’d said when trying to get me to justify it.

          So because of that, your statement comes across as ignorant

          Says the guy whose only response was “Wut???”