About that wildfire smoke: "The rest of our lives will be smoky"

 Our weather here in Saskatoon wasn't too bad today, but CTV News was certainly covering the hell out of the smoke in Toronto -- in Canada, the weather is not "news" unless its happening in Toronto! -- and the forecast is more smoke  - here's the latest wildfire map I could find.

The anti-Canada sentiment on X because of wildfire smoke in the northeast US is crazy tonight. 

Some seem to want Trump to invade Canada to put out the fires and stop the smoke from affecting their nice summer. 

Yeah, right. Poor babies!

Here's a few posts I saw on X (which now deletes the poster name on embedded posts, I don't know why...)

Fuck Canada: The Air Quality In Chicago This Weekend Will Be "The Worst In The Entire World" Thanks To Canadian Wildfires https://t.co/i2uMpb4ERF pic.twitter.com/IWuS5ocde8

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) August 1, 2025

I'm almost in support of Canada becoming our 51st state just so we can start prosecuting the arsonists and put an end these never ending Canadian wildfires! pic.twitter.com/wzYEBDJunR

— MNRick 🇺🇸 (@MNRick_v3) July 31, 2025

We the USA need to annex Canada by force and only let Alberta vote because:
-they’re poisoning our skies with their wildfires
-they tolerate greater security threats
-their people need to be liberated from tyranny
-many Albertans are based

— Ben LeNeave (@Ben_LeNeave) August 5, 2025

They don't wanna hear about fires also burning in the United States:

The US is full of wildfires as well, there just isn’t as much wild forest area as Canada. Check the smoke report. You have smoke rolling in from the south in Michigan as well as from the north. pic.twitter.com/Jq3fkPcwOl

— Rachel Andres ChPC (@MrsRachelAndres) August 5, 2025

This post is from Grok and it will piss them off, too:

Yes, climate change contributes to Canada's wildfires by raising temperatures, drying vegetation, and extending fire seasons, per scientific consensus (e.g., Wikipedia, Climate Central).

The US is more responsible, with ~4.7 Gt total CO2 emissions vs. Canada's ~0.6 Gt (2023 data…

— Grok (@grok) August 5, 2025

It's so different on the other platforms -- information, common sense, compassion: 

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BlueSky:

A transatlantic atmospheric river of smoke Massive smoke plume from #wildfires in western Canada is crossing the Atlantic, heading toward the UK, France & Germany. Carried by strong upper winds, it may tint skies & affect air layers over Europe. 🛰 @cira-csu.bsky.social @noaa.gov ✂️Via @zoom.earth

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— Worldview Earth Data 🌍🌱 (@wed-explorer.bsky.social) August 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM

Smoke from the Canada wildfires. You can actually smell it. And I'm way down in Cortland County NY. Far from the fires. What affects one affects all. The planet's a system.

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— MaggieShayne.com 🌱🧹✍️🤎🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🗽💙 (@maggieshayne.bsky.social) August 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM

Substack Notes:

We’re going on almost 5 days of having unhealthy air due to Canadian wildfires. My husband and I grew up in SE Wisconsin where we now live, and don’t ever remember this as an issue. Climate change is real. And it’s affecting our daily lives.

- Ashley

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World’s Forest Carbon Sink Shrank to its Lowest Point in at Least 2 Decades, Due to Fires and Persistent Deforestation. https://www.wri.org/insights/forest-carbon-sink-shrinking-fires-deforestation From the article: "In 2023 and 2024, fires surged across the globe — from tropical rainforests in South America to boreal forests in Canada and Russia — releasing more than 4Gt of greenhouse gases each year (including carbon locked in trees, as well as methane and nitrous oxide from burning)." "That’s equivalent to adding a third of China’s annual emissions into the atmosphere each year." MORE than India or about 2/3rds of the US emissions for those years. FROM WILDFIRES. Our planet is rapidly bursting into flames as we undergo “ecological turnover” on a GLOBAL SCALE. We have already forced 1.5 “Dino Killer” asteroids worth of ENERGY into the world's oceans. By 2040 we will hit 2 asteroids worth. Does any rational person think that happens WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES? https://richardcrim.substack.com/p/the-crisis-report-36 - The World’s Forests are Burning, Ecosystem Turnover is the Cause. Let’s All be Really Clear on What that Means. Global Warming is warming up the entire planet, so every ecosystem on the planet is going to change in response to that warming. Not just “vulnerable” places, not just “some” places, every place is going to go through this. The ecosystem you live in right now is already dying. You might not have noticed it yet, but the plants and animals have. When it reaches a tipping point where there is enough debris from the dying ecosystem laying around, fires will start happening. The rest of our lives, will be “smokey”.

- Richard Crim

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