2 thoughts on “Milloy talks wildfire air quality and Antarctic melting with Laura Ingraham”
I’ve only experienced smoke from a wildfire during a few weeks one summer living in southern Appalachia about 5 years ago. The fires were burning in the Pigeon Forge, TN area. It’s unusual for forest fires around here to get as big as those did, at least in my short time living here (9 yrs). There was another big one in 2022 but the smoke from that one didn’t make it to me in Georgia.
I could see the smoke looking out my kitchen window at the fields and woods surrounding my home. I could smell it. I was breathing it. This went on for weeks.
I hate to break your heart Steve, but the smoke did make it hard to breathe. Studies may or may not show harm to asthmatics – I wouldn’t know – but I’ve been in the midst of the smoke. I’m a single data point and I’m not even asthmatic.
I do agree with you that we can’t be blaming climate change for either the fires currently burning or for the smoke in NYC. There are other more mundane things to blame. A smoky NYC is too big for the network news folks to leave alone as a climate change story. They’ll take anything.
I’ve lived on the west coast all my life. Wild fires cause horrible reddish-brown skies when the wind blows the “wrong way” (relative to where the fire is and where you are). This occurs somewhere along the west coast every summer — so I just love to see the “end of the world” panic among the news-folks when New York City gets a few days of smoky air! Sadly, the politicians on west coast (particularly California) have so thoroughly restricted good forestry practices and limited lumber harvesting that wild fires have become more frequent. Of course, none of this has anything to do with “global warming.”
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I’ve only experienced smoke from a wildfire during a few weeks one summer living in southern Appalachia about 5 years ago. The fires were burning in the Pigeon Forge, TN area. It’s unusual for forest fires around here to get as big as those did, at least in my short time living here (9 yrs). There was another big one in 2022 but the smoke from that one didn’t make it to me in Georgia.
I could see the smoke looking out my kitchen window at the fields and woods surrounding my home. I could smell it. I was breathing it. This went on for weeks.
I hate to break your heart Steve, but the smoke did make it hard to breathe. Studies may or may not show harm to asthmatics – I wouldn’t know – but I’ve been in the midst of the smoke. I’m a single data point and I’m not even asthmatic.
I do agree with you that we can’t be blaming climate change for either the fires currently burning or for the smoke in NYC. There are other more mundane things to blame. A smoky NYC is too big for the network news folks to leave alone as a climate change story. They’ll take anything.
I’ve lived on the west coast all my life. Wild fires cause horrible reddish-brown skies when the wind blows the “wrong way” (relative to where the fire is and where you are). This occurs somewhere along the west coast every summer — so I just love to see the “end of the world” panic among the news-folks when New York City gets a few days of smoky air! Sadly, the politicians on west coast (particularly California) have so thoroughly restricted good forestry practices and limited lumber harvesting that wild fires have become more frequent. Of course, none of this has anything to do with “global warming.”