In 1991, about this time of year, I went to Toronto, at a time when it being wreathed in smoke from forest fires was not yet a high annual probability.
By flying there I played a tiny part in edging up that likelihood.
To show how much we’ve learned in the intervening 35 years…
to screencap this image from Reuters, I had to first watch an ad from Airchina, delivered in a web page that pushed 103 Mb at me to deliver a 44 second video and about 10 KB of text
