[MCN] The National Wildlife Federation -- How Does Wildfire Smoke Affect Wildlife?

[Lance Olsen]

How Does Wildfire Smoke Affect Wildlife?

The National Wildlife Federation Blog
https://blog.nwf.org › Archive
 <https://blog.nwf.org/2023/07/how-does-wildfire-smoke-affect-wildlife/>
The National Wildlife Federation Blog
https://blog.nwf.org › Archive
Jul 21, 2023 — Wildfire smoke can result in layered consequences for wildlife, including changes to behavior and health; reduced survival, reproductive success, and growth.



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The emission of greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere is a by-product of modern marvels such as the production of vast amounts of energy, heating and cooling inhospitable environments to be amenable to human existence, and traveling great distances faster than our saddle-sore ancestors ever dreamed possible. 

However, these luxuries come at a price: climate changes in the form of severe droughts, extreme precipitation and temperatures, increased frequency of flooding in coastal cities, global warming, and sea-level rise (1, 2). 

This is the price we pay for the luxury of about 200 y of relatively unchecked greenhouse gas emissions.

Lasting coastal hazards from past greenhouse gas emissions
Tony E. Wong. PNAS first published November 7, 2019.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917051116

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"This buck stops everywhere."

<<https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denial/>>


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