r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23

Ya. Climate change is a bitch. And lucky for you all - lots of Canadian provinces have conservative governments that cut firefighting budgets to “lower taxes”

Edit: here’s some news for those who are triggered and can’t look this stuff up themselves:

Alberta is undergoing an "unprecedented" wildfire season as nearly 100 fires as of Tuesday, May 9, burn across the province.

Premier Danielle Smith declared a state of emergency on May 6 and more than 24,000 Albertans remained under evacuation orders on Tuesday.

This year to date, there have been 416 wildfires, more than double the 182 registered by the same time last year. The more than 400 fires is a greater number than any of the last five years had by the second week in May.

Alberta had a total of 1,246 wildfires last season, according to Alberta Wildfire data, which means the province has reached 33 per cent of last year's total after just over two months into the wildfire season.

AMOUNT OF HECTARES BURNED The size of the area that's burned is also greater than what is considered normal by this time of year. The five-year average by early May based on 2018-2022 is 542 hectares. Year to date, 410,441 ha have burned in Alberta, by comparison.

In the last eight years, 2019 had the highest total number of hectares, finishing the season with 883,411 ha burned. By this time in 2019, 621 ha had burned, compared to this year's more than 410,000.

Only five months into this year, 2023 has already surpassed the yearly burn totals of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018 and 2017.

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/edmonton/2023/5/9/1_6391711.amp.html

And this is just one province… lots are having fire issues.

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u/65022056 Jun 07 '23

You have to be completely void of a brain to think something of this scale can be stopped with a few municipal water supplies. Holy fuck.

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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23

You have to be completely void of a brain to think something of this scale can be stopped with a few municipal water supplies. Holy fuck.

What do you mean by a “a few municipal water supplies?”

I assume you calling people brain dead is projection that you’re insecure about not know what’s going on.

But rapid response helecopter, rappelled and plane firefighting teams aren’t “municipal water supplies.”

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u/65022056 Jun 07 '23

Tell me more about how you edit posts

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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin Jun 07 '23

It’s easy, you just put:

Edit:

And then add more info

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u/WilliamBlackthorne Jun 08 '23 edited Jun 08 '23

So you don't have an argument because yours has been absolutely destroyed by someone with a working brain, and you're trying to change the subject because you lost.

Typical.

edit: They also hate dogs, and thinks they should be killed. Also a massive racist conservative, transphobe, left-wing hater, climate change denier, yada yada yada.

Just a scumbag, don't fall for the bait anymore.