@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
Post #3909133
2026-07-18 11:16 UTC
"As the climate warms, fire danger increases, mostly because the atmosphere gets “thirstier” – more water vapor can evaporate into warmer air. This results in more water vapor evaporating from plants, which dries them out and creates an increased risk of large and intense fires that can generate huge smoke plumes."
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/07/dangerous-and-historic-wildfire-smoke-pollution-event-engulfs-the-u-s-and-canada/
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@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social 2026-07-18 11:30
"Why do we know that Canadian boreal forest fires are not being driven by mismanagement? First, and most importantly, most of the boreal was never being managed in the first place. [It's about extreme heat brought on by climate change.] The biggest fire years pile up in the hot-and-dry corner with 2023 really standing out." https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-boreal-wildfires-arent-just
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@PaulBusch@cosocial.ca 2026-07-18 13:39
@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social I would have expected the U.S. sending us a transport truck full of rakes...