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4. For parts of 3 months this summer the smoke from the Canadian forest fires was visible in Central OH
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 08:49 AM
Wednesday

Those areas should not be burning because they should be under snow for 5 to 7 months and the ground should be wet
with surface water, moss, ferns, rotting trees and stumps, blueberries, lichens, peat moss, and leaf litter from the trees
but we have heated up the planet to an extent that those conditions no longer exist. The science behind the increase in
CO 2 in a body of gas and the more heat that body of gas will hold is over 150 years old.

So what does Trump do in order to keep his backers from the fossil fuel industries happy? He is gonna close NOAA's climate
observatory on Mt. Muna Loa in Hawaii which for 70 years has been the gold standard for green house gases data.

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