The West Coast has woken up to another morning of terrifying, burnt orange skies as wildfires rage in nine states
Photo: Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images . The scene is particularly surreal in San Francisco, where the acrid, discolored air, transformed by tremendous amounts of smoke, made the cityscape unrecognizable, like a vista from another planet. But it is our planet. Rebecca Solnit writes in the Guardian that today, looking up, she felt “the most unnatural-feeling and unnerving of my life, with darkness rather than daytime rolling in.
Though smoke from wildfires has long created smoky air and vivid sunsets in California and elsewhere, this yet-again unprecedented season feels like we are nearing a tipping point in the climate crisis — if we haven’t already gone over it. The fires, stoked by record-breaking heat and dryness, are themselves behaving differently, with new ferocity.
While photos of the orange skies may look like something out of an apocalypse movie, they are very, very real, and happening now. The writer Carvell Wallace said on Twitter that the atmosphere “is worse, weirder, and more horrifying than you can imagine.” Photo: Santiago Mejia/The San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Photo: MediaNews Group/The Mercury News/MediaNews Group via Getty Images Photo: Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Photo: Eric Risberg/AP/Shutterstock Photo: Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Photo: Scott Strazzante/The San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Photo: Philip Pacheco/Getty Images Photo:...
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