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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by robocat on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:00PM (#24486652)
I would make the educated guess that the reason wood smoke is OK is because we have thousands of years of evolution to be more tolerant of wood smoke.
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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by anonAndOn on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:11PM (#24487327)
You would hope, but no. Wood smoke is still deadly.[0]

[0]https://www.stoveteam.org/why-stoves

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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by robocat on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:26PM (#24498740)
“more tolerant” is what I said. Evolution is mostly a slow process and can never reach perfection.

An evolutionary force that is too strong just kills a species.

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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by samatman on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:11PM (#24487330)
Close to a million years by the best guess.

Which is thousands of years... about a thousand such thousands.

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