She is an anchor for a Michigan news channel, their legal page has a donate ad for reelecting trimp. https://www.michigannewssource.com/legal/

Those damn Canadians are smoking all that Cannabis again...

Super tangent time!

The wild fire smoke filled the plant I work at until Friday night. They did not offer any sort of face coverings. One of the guys found a stash of N95’s that the guys at the paint booth used, so we had at least something.

I went to the hardware store the next day and got some 3M Aura 9205+ N95 masks. I work 8-12 hours on the shop floor, and wanted to have at least something that might help. Bought a 20 pack, offered them to everyone in my department. A couple people took some, but no one wore them. I wanted to make sure that the team at least had the opportunity to wear PPE. The smoke in the plant was way worse than it was outside.

They looked at me as if I were some paranoid nut. My lungs felt fine all night. I took the mask off a couple of times to have some water, and it was crazy how bad it smelled in the plant. With the mask on, it was just another Thursday night.

Fuckin’ libtards though, right? Got ‘em! Whatev, I felt quite comfortable knowing I did at least something to protect myself.

I don't remember all these heat waves either but I do remember climate scientists saying we would have them.

Nothing like a solid roast from Geoff Thew, "professional shitbag" (his words, not mine) and five golden-flaming-dumpster owner of Chéz Garbáge!

Didn't think I'd see the guy who tells me about "trashy" anime on YouTube on this page!

Intentional or not, 10/10 ragebait

Unless this person is a paid disinformation agent I think we should react to ignorance with a bit more grace than this.

Weird context to see Geoff Thew.

Meanwhile he's paying a literal Nazi monthly for a blue checkmark on his fascist platform...

Nah, the actual problem is all the wind mills and solar panels. They're screwing up the weather!!!

(I seriously had a chud tell me this.)

I was waiting to be seated at a restaurant Friday when I overheard the same sentiment but then took a hard right turn....

"It never used to be like this" 'i know' "All the liberals stopped the logging in Canada and now look at them burn and here we are dealing with it."

Has anyone heard someone blame Canada as if the nation of Canada was personally attacking them?

Had a relative do that yesterday and it was a reminder in a moment that should have been a low stress, loving moment with family a rage inducing reminder that we're fucked.

I grew up in Northern MI. 1989-2011. I do not recall any summer of wildfires smoke coming across the lake.

A dumbass on dumbass-platform X calls another dumbass "dumbass". What a dumbass.

it's those guddam lazy Canajians refusing to rake those leaves!

Tariffs will fix this!

The name is "Doo-Moss"

Wildfires hitting a specific area is also just rare. I grew up in a wildfire-prone area and we only got significant smoke once. So not remembering any doesn't really say anything meaningful necessarily.

We're in the 'FIND OUT' phase of what happens when you clear cut an entire continent and replant our forests on a massive scale while thinking that 'oh all that sequestered carbon will just be recaptured in the new trees we plant'. No - whats happening instead is - the trees we mass replanted don't capture that carbon back at a rate we expect - I am pretty sure the forestry industry knows this - but hey profits right?

Also I reckon if we have retained our old growth forests, it wouldn't be this bad. It would still be bad, but at least our forests would be more resilient. As for those that have no idea what a old growth forest is - think massive trees that are wider than 2 cars at the base and that are over a thousand years old each at minimum. Go visit one when you have a chance - they are increasingly rare because governments are still fucking allowing logging companies to cut them down. Also, you'll find they're a lot more humid than young forests (~200 year old ones). It's a travesty. In BC, for example, 97% of the province have been clear-cutted and our forestry industry likes to tout themselves as 'sustainable'. It's bullshit. What's even crazier is that we got barely any industry other than shipping out raw lumber for processing elsewhere while we lose jobs and taxes on value added industries.

People spent decades preventing wildfires. Fires are a natural part of ecological systems. Overgrowth and a build up of litter cause more intense fires and increase their ability to spread. In northern regions, people were also preventing beavers from doing their thing that helps reduce wildfire spread. At least in Florida we pioneered controlled burns to simulate nature and save lives.