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A comment on Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II. Parent comment

Re:Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II by Bertio on Friday November 23, 2018 @08:03PM (#18519819)
I live in British Columbia and for the past 3 summers have had to spend at least all of August indoors with doors and windows sealed shut due to the dangerous levels of particulates in the air. I am already experiencing it.
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Re:Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II by rwallace on Friday November 23, 2018 @10:57PM (#18520369)
Particulates – is that smoke from forest fires caused by hot dry weather?
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Re:Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II by Bertio on Friday November 23, 2018 @11:32PM (#18520456)
More or less. The fires are caused mostly by lightening and dry winds (some human caused too) by also contributed to by a lot of fuel from overly wet spring followed by dry hot summer.

A small increase in temperature results in a significant increase in lightening which is the big worry.

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