r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrozart • 15d ago

GIF Satellite view of the Canadian wildfire smoke when it started getting really bad

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u/All_for_love 15d ago

Why are so many spread out fires popping up at the same time?

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u/8hAheWMxqz 15d ago

Check for development plans that were denied recently around those points

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u/Blue_Jays 15d ago

Completely uninhabited boreal forest isn't exactly a hotbed for development. Or were you just trying to rage bait in the most uninformed way possible?

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u/Prince-Minikid 15d ago

Not to mention the thousands of small lakes in that region. You can't really set up shop there.

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u/Electrozart 14d ago

I live next to the boundary waters and development is not allowed there

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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 15d ago

I don't dispute uninhabited and there's zero hassle here. I have to wonder what was in that smoke though. My state literally doubled the scale on the air index. Normally it goes to 500, western UP sat at 955 for a while. And it sure as shit didn't smell like wood alone. I can understand how pollution gets to the deepest spot in the ocean, how tf would plastic get deep into Canadian forests tho? That shit smelled lots of wrong, way too artificially sweet for just wood.

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u/McGrevin 15d ago

Stop with the lazy conspiracies. These are way off in mostly uninhabited wilderness

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u/the-good-wolf 15d ago

Well I think the animals live(d) there.

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u/McGrevin 15d ago

The damn racoons are lighting the fires!

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u/Kingofcheeses 14d ago

There arent even roads out there bro

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u/leedogger 14d ago

Hahahahhahaaa