Wildfire Smoke Will Kill Thousands More by 2050, Study Finds | Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/climate/wildfire-smoke-health-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m08.L-gV.izMqpNYrOnjS
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The paper is [here](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09611-w.epdf?sharing_token=knojMnGBOMxYL6zuCRaNdtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0N3EGN7YO__VWXxkJ-4OTv8ozNF_BZRrzr2uIjOVaHVUmLjAjKYR660NfiL_GcbG0XfLqsuGwGAxQmnOWzU-YW0FYNwoYflI3TerYbERKmvIfORnTUP5lh_LztiZRur0NOOibO1Ris_EPu81F5E_lKN6K5DVdAf3atFEAKXkXqmZ0H7ofN4BAruHxvHaPvIyr4%3D&tracking_referrer=www.washingtonpost.com)
This started being a problem in Seattle about 10 years ago. Now the whole country faces brown choking summers. They’re terrible now, the next generation is going to live in a hell scape.
They used the SSP3-7.0 scenario.
>They include: a world of sustainability-focused growth and equality (SSP1); a “middle of the road” world where trends broadly follow their historical patterns (SSP2); a fragmented world of “resurgent nationalism” (SSP3); a world of ever-increasing inequality (SSP4); and a world of rapid and unconstrained growth in economic output and energy use (SSP5).
vinay prasad (one of the most powerful figures at the FDA– you know, the people who decide whether food and drugs are safe) said that masking to prevent wildfire smoke inhalation is a mental illness
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