[sam_paine]

This is apparently not a problem for environmentalists who are worried about second hand smoke from tiny little cigarettes.

Think about it: all second hand smoke can only be a fraction of all the tobacco fields in the US south on fire at once.  

This is all of Mexico and Guatemala....and burning really wierd trees and plants, too.

  Surely this smudgy sky is more dangerous than smoke at a bar on Fridays. Nope, the enviro-whackos don't care because this fire does not benefit corporations. So it's benevolent smoke.  

What we need is to restart the old Ford 8N tractor lines, kick out a bunch of brand new 50-yr-old low-tech tractors and brush-hawgs for $1000/pop and give 100,000 of them to farmers in Mexico so they can "selectively" mow and quit setting their country on fire to clear it.   (And take that $100M spent "creating jobs for the environment" away from the EPA budget.....)  

[cweese]

...yeah, i was wondering when the tree huggers were going to start their mass protests, sit-ins, and other such demonstrations against this muck in the sky...friggin' hypocrites, as usual...

[Paleo Conservative]

The smoke this year isn't as bad a two years ago.

[cogitator]

Carbon monoxide concentration from Yucatan fires

For the color scale, go here:

Pollution from Fires in Central America