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Based Florida Man's avatar

This beekeeper fellow investigated the plastic smell and found:

"The forest fire smoke goes up into the atmosphere, and UV light from the sun is causing a chemical process to turn it into formaldehyde and benzyne. Benzyne causes cancer at 4 parts per billion."

https://twitter.com/dc_flake/status/1674542373618044929 70 sec video

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LMWC's avatar

I appreciate your research, but not buying it. The upper Midwest has been dealing with these Canadian wildfires for over 6 weeks now. Winds early on from the north and NE were bringing it down, fires in Quebec. Winds and rains now out of the south and west and still smoke. Somehow the smoke is filtering down and getting caught in the jet stream. Not buying any of it.

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Jeff C's avatar

Have to agree as I've lived with brush fires (in the chaparral) and forest fires (in the local mountains) for my entire life in Southern California, there's at least one or two big ones every year. They have never smelled like anything other than a campfire.

So they need to explain why this is different. Perhaps it's needs to get higher in the atmosphere for this reaction to occur hence the long distance travel to southern parts of the US. But people in Ontario and Michigan are saying the same thing and they aren't that far away.

The days of some egghead handwaving away something completely new and unusual as innocuous are long gone. They lost that trust and will never get it back.

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RandiG's avatar

Laurie,

I’m with you!

My husband said “it’s the jet stream” and I said it makes no sense. I think people WANT to believe these silly ‘explanations’ because WHY would our governments want to kill us, the wildlife, etc.

But, we can always count on government to over play their hand.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

I'm seeing people dispute the wind patterns. Like in TX they're seeing this, and there's no way it's the jet stream doing that.

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A Rose's avatar

I did a quick DuckDuckGo search. Raw (recent results) search seems to back that theory up. Changed the dates to only include results from the years 1995-2000. The only links showing up with regards to smoke turning into formaldehyde are questions about cigarettes and vapes. So, I don't buy this at all.

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A Rose's avatar

By raw search, I mean recent results.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Good sleuthing.

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Gigi Gummerson's avatar

I could make a map like that as well. Where’s the video? We saw a guy jump from space but they can’t show satellite imagery?

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Roger Beal's avatar

BOOM. Please pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Looks like we should all move to NEWFOUNDLAND or the DAKOTAS--HAH!!

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Michele's avatar

No. Just, no.

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