.MichaelEMann tells ZeeshanAleem that the wildfire crisis is fueled by a 'toxic climate change brew' and could be a sign of far worse things to come.
that the resulting smoke has already produced one of the worst wildfire pollution events in U.S. historyMany people in the eastern U.S. are experiencing threats to their health that are typically associated with the wildfire-prone West Coast, and wondering whether the smoke they are seeing and smelling could become the new normal.
There are several things going on, each of which is related to climate change. This region of Canada is getting warmer, and we expect it to have more frequent episodes of hot and dry weather. The very persistent “stuck” jet stream pattern leads to long periods of stagnant weather and, in this case, a long stretch of very dry weather that lends itself to larger, more extensive wildfires.
A firefighter directs water on a grass fire behind a residential property in Kamloops, British Columbia, on Monday.For many of us on the East Coast, the idea of worrying about how wildfire smoke could affect us directly never even struck as a possibility. How bad is it for our health? This is a sign of far worse things to come if we don’t rein in fossil fuel burning and carbon emissions and continue to warm the planet.High concentrations of small smoke particles are very hazardous to human health, particularly the young and elderly and people who have conditions like asthma. We hear a lot about the poor air quality in cities like Beijing owing to the large concentration of PM2.5 particles from coal burning and resulting sulfur pollution.
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