BC smoke ....

[furrowtickler]

Should we send B.C. a huge carbon tax bill ?? More C02 produced from the fires there than we as farmers will produce in the next 100 years .

[helmsdale]

9am and i could stare directly at it without a welding helmet on. Grass still soaking wet. Harvest is going to be a challenge if this keeps up. Late starts, early finishes. Made it till about 9pm last night and it was like shoveling sacks of potatoes up the front end.

[hobbyfrmr]

Should we send B.C. a huge carbon tax bill ?? More C02 produced from the fires there than we as farmers will produce in the next 100 years .

I was thinking the same thing. The parade marshal will take some of his day off to dance with glee at how much carbon tax revenue these BC forest fires will generagte.
The budget is balancing itself !

[Oliver88]

Hippies in BC love their sewage pollution and smoke.

[furrowtickler]

Hippies in BC love their sewage pollution and smoke.

Talk about being hypocritical..... BC pouting about “Dirty oil” .... lol lol

The Same story could be told in Quebec

[woodland]

West of Edmonton we have fine ash falling today and the yard light was still on at 9 am when I left to town. Visibility is around two miles currently but on Friday bales and power poles disappeared after a half mile. Sure glad our hay is done since nothing dries out in the smoke. 🔥

[macdon02]

However,*volcanoes and forest fires are*THE*major natural contributors. What is important to understand is that sulfur dioxide is a pollutant that*does*impact the climate. Once SO2 is in the atmosphere, it can easily form sulfate ions. These are negatively charged particles made of up of sulfur and oxygen atoms. Since they are negatively charged, sulfate ions combine with water vapor in the atmosphere and then form small droplets of sulfuric acid (H2SO4). You may hear of this as acid rain. CO2 does not act in this manner.

When a volcano erupts. we then see huge amounts of sulfur dioxide are released into the stratosphere which will then convert to sulfates. There is a qualification needed here because sulfates formed at lower altitudes are removed from the atmosphere in just a few weeks through settling and precipitation. However, the SO2 emission from volcanos reach the upper bounds of the atmosphere and create aerosols that are mainly tiny droplets of sulfuric acid that then stay in the atmosphere for about two years. These SO2 droplets reflect incoming solar radiation back into space yet*absorb both incoming solar radiation and outgoing infrared radiation. The net result, is simply that SO2 reduces the amount of energy reaching the lower atmosphere and Earth’s surface. Hence, we get global cooling of the lower atmosphere and Earth’s surface.

Consequently, it is the volcanic eruptions that are of*considerable impact on global climate and are a proven fact rather than theory as is the case with CO2. Following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, a cooling trend lasted through 1993. This was attributed to the sulfuric acid aerosols that persisted in the stratosphere. Historically, there was a global cooling which followed the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. The worst such event was the “Year without a summer” which followed the eruption of Tambora in 1815.

The*other school of thought has been where many scientists believe that the continuous emission of sulfates would counter any greenhouse gas theory of CO2. As volcanos tend to erupt when the energy output of the sun declines as has been taking place since 2015, we are experiencing uneven concentrations of sulfates around the world. This may be a major issue in turning places that are normally warm to cold and cold to warm. The problem with SO2 is that it remains in the atmosphere much longer and hence the continued trend of erupting volcanos can seriously alter the climate for even more than a decade ahead.

[seldomseen]

We were suppose to be sunny and 27 but then the smoke rolled in and temp only made it up to 20.

What if this keeps up and the crop never matures or dries. I see soybean fields around here that are grass green and hardly any pods yet and all this smoke will stretch this out till it freezes.

[furrowtickler]

We were suppose to be sunny and 27 but then the smoke rolled in and temp only made it up to 20.

What if this keeps up and the crop never matures or dries. I see soybean fields around here that are grass green and hardly any pods yet and all this smoke will stretch this out till it freezes.

Yup , ours are green as well but we have tons of pods but needed a rain a week ago and no smoke right now 🤷*♂️