That's ridiculous, are you trying to tell me that they draw those lines on every photo instead of marking the ground once? Typical government waste! Also, this community is for serious posting and commenting only.
And then Americans have the nerve to get pissy with Canada when their smoke gets over here. No offers to help, no well wishes. Just complaints. Typical.
Probably a little bit of both. Anecdotally, the fires and smoke columns are probably bigger than you realize. This is a pic from some time ago of a 10,000m tall smoke column from a fire barely 24 hours old and less than 100kms away.
I mean, I'm no stranger to wildfires and smoke where i live, it's just... even when I look at giant clouds covering the sky, my brain says "I mean, that's big but there's no way it's significant-on-a-global-scale big." But some of those smoke clouds look the be the size of a small state. And the fires themselves. I would've thought they'd just be pinpricks of light if anything, not those angry big blotches. I think i just need to recalibrate what "big" means.
It doesn't help that I live in a large state. When you can drive for 9 hours in a straight line and not cross a state border, nothing seems THAT big, you know?
I remember a recent year that California was on fire. Here we were watching the AQI to see whether we needed to stay indoors, or have a bug-out bag ready. I remember getting a call from my dad in Missouri saying that the smoke from our fires was all the way over there.
I think it was the year that Trump criticized us for failing to rake our forests, as if our virgin woods were the same thing as a golf course.
Yeah, everyone blaming the US and China when every first world nation have been contributing to the problem by sending all their business and industry to them is pretty hypocritical.
I think you'll find every country has contributed to this problem.
The difference is was the the President of the US that blamed Canada for the smoke, refusing to recognize that Global Warming is the problem. The post you're replying to is not from any Canadian official, it's just a joke on a shitty web forum.
It is true that Canada has a high per capita level of emissions. People definitely don't do as much as they should and the popularity of stupidly huge trucks is absolutly a problem. One thing to consider tho is that winters are though and that definitely accounts for something, as well as the fact that it's a huge territory. I'm definitely not proud of how our new government just decided that climate change can't be adresses right now, but a big part of these measures are a direct reaction to trump trying to starve us. Because the united states are currently trying to break our economy if you didn't know avout that. Americans are bringing the world back 50 years ago on every environmental issues, they can definitely go fucked themselves.
I expected this message, but I didn't expect it to be downvoted. Is Lemmy getting better? Probably not; the parent probably just posted it at the wrong time and the dogs did their piling.
60 Comments
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 87 pts · 21d
Obviously an illegal Canadian wildfire that crossed the border. ICE will shoot it any minute now.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 21d
With what?
Fire, water or ice?
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 20d
Come on everyone knows you fight fire with fire
fartographer@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 20d
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 5 pts · 20d
Did it work?
fartographer@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 20d
sizzles
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 20d
In an alternate reality, they are just hoards of ice monsters
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 21d
As a WA state resident, believe me... We are paying for it. And we ain't getting our money back.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 21d
Where is the map from?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 21d
Space. Who knew the land actually had lines like that? Guess that's why the states and provinces are shaped the way they are though.
grte@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 21d
Those Nazcas were a lot more wide ranging than I thought.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d
A few of them were bad at following the plans for their part of the drawing and got lost.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 20d
those are leylines for magic users.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 21d
I can confirm. I am from space.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 20d
I knew the land had lines like that.
Behold, The Slash!
Relevant Youtube Short
starik@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 21d
The shapes of states are arbitrary. That is an actual photo from space, but the white lines are added to the image after the fact.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 21d
LIES!
starik@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 21d
It’s true. You can tell because the white lines are in front of the clouds.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 16 pts · 21d
That’s just because the clouds are lower to the ground.
You can fly over clouds, so the lines needed to be drawn higher than the clouds so pilots can find their way.
It’s also why the smoke isn’t covering the line, since the fire is on the ground and the smoke is rising it hasn’t made it as high as the line yet.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 20d
That's ridiculous, are you trying to tell me that they draw those lines on every photo instead of marking the ground once? Typical government waste! Also, this community is for serious posting and commenting only.
0ops@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 21d
There aren't really lines, they did that with wires
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 21d
And this is taken from a low (as in southerly) angle, making Washington look flatter or squished. That or the aspect ratio was altered.
starik@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 20d
It’s definitely from the south, and low earth orbit is really low. It’s like putting your eye right up to a baseball, almost touching it.
See where the ISS orbits, to scale, here:
shininghero@pawb.social · 22 pts · 21d
GOES-18
expatriado@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 21d
near earth orbit
Karmanopoly@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d
The Internet
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d
Duhh!
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d
I read that in the tone of Andy Samburg's character in Threw It on the Ground when he says, "My dad's not a phone! Duh!"
spacehulk@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 21d
I see a LOT of smoke that was made in America in this image. USA USA USA
Limonene@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 21d
The people emitting the carbon dioxide should pay for it, since climate change is responsible for much of the fire.
(This statement is not in disagreement with the post. See list.)
phoenixarise@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 20d
And then Americans have the nerve to get pissy with Canada when their smoke gets over here. No offers to help, no well wishes. Just complaints. Typical.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 21d
Blows my mind that Trump was raising a stink over the smoke when it was pouring into NYC and New England.
All things considered, I'd expect him to fan the flames much, much more literally.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 20d
It's a forest so he will demand the flames be raked.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 21d
Man GOES is bad ass
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 21d
Since global climate change is a liberal hoax, maybe liberal Americans should foot the bill...
Or some such bullshit according to Trump and conservative Americans
ratofkryll@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 20d
I live in that circle, north of the border. :(
FE80@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 20d
That's a lot of fires.
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 20d
Thank you Washington for avenging Michigan.
chunes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d
No one lives there, so it's not great vengeance
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d
Damn those all seem huge. Are fires and the resulting smoke a lot bigger than I think, or is the world smaller?
GoodStuffEh@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 20d
Probably a little bit of both. Anecdotally, the fires and smoke columns are probably bigger than you realize. This is a pic from some time ago of a 10,000m tall smoke column from a fire barely 24 hours old and less than 100kms away.
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d
I mean, I'm no stranger to wildfires and smoke where i live, it's just... even when I look at giant clouds covering the sky, my brain says "I mean, that's big but there's no way it's significant-on-a-global-scale big." But some of those smoke clouds look the be the size of a small state. And the fires themselves. I would've thought they'd just be pinpricks of light if anything, not those angry big blotches. I think i just need to recalibrate what "big" means.
It doesn't help that I live in a large state. When you can drive for 9 hours in a straight line and not cross a state border, nothing seems THAT big, you know?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 20d
We should rake our forests more.
I remember a recent year that California was on fire. Here we were watching the AQI to see whether we needed to stay indoors, or have a bug-out bag ready. I remember getting a call from my dad in Missouri saying that the smoke from our fires was all the way over there.
I think it was the year that Trump criticized us for failing to rake our forests, as if our virgin woods were the same thing as a golf course.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · -17 pts · 21d
Canada is #11 in CO2 emissions worldwide don't act like you ain't done nothing.
can@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 21d
The point
isn'tis he wasn't causing a fuss about CO2 emissions. It was smoke.Hellinabucket@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 21d
You can't be this dense. Sad troll is sad.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · -21 pts · 21d
🙄 everyone who says something that threatens your narrow worldview is a troll. grow up.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 21d
The hypocrisy is real.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · -1 pts · 21d
Yeah, everyone blaming the US and China when every first world nation have been contributing to the problem by sending all their business and industry to them is pretty hypocritical.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 21d
Nah, you're just a fucking moron who can't understand context and feels the need to draw attention to yourself.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · -3 pts · 21d
smoke is caused by fires dumbass
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
That's some mighty fine trolling
klankin@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 21d
Sounds good to me, let's make America pay for 11/12th of the cleanup and Canada can cover the last 1/12 as per their emission ratios
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 20d
Ok and the US is #2, only behind China.
I think you'll find every country has contributed to this problem.
The difference is was the the President of the US that blamed Canada for the smoke, refusing to recognize that Global Warming is the problem. The post you're replying to is not from any Canadian official, it's just a joke on a shitty web forum.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 20d
How does one become a canadian officially
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 20d
You have to do the secret handshake, eh.
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 21d
Not even in the top ten? Thanks. Man. I thought they were higher. That's a relief lmao.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 20d
It is true that Canada has a high per capita level of emissions. People definitely don't do as much as they should and the popularity of stupidly huge trucks is absolutly a problem. One thing to consider tho is that winters are though and that definitely accounts for something, as well as the fact that it's a huge territory. I'm definitely not proud of how our new government just decided that climate change can't be adresses right now, but a big part of these measures are a direct reaction to trump trying to starve us. Because the united states are currently trying to break our economy if you didn't know avout that. Americans are bringing the world back 50 years ago on every environmental issues, they can definitely go fucked themselves.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d
I expected this message, but I didn't expect it to be downvoted. Is Lemmy getting better? Probably not; the parent probably just posted it at the wrong time and the dogs did their piling.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 20d
Lemmy will only get better when we delete the italians.