{"id":216852,"date":"2024-03-25T18:30:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/wildfire-smoke-may-be-deadliest-effect-of-climate-change-in-us\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:19:57","slug":"wildfire-smoke-may-be-deadliest-effect-of-climate-change-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/wildfire-smoke-may-be-deadliest-effect-of-climate-change-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke may be deadliest effect of climate change in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22201206\/SEI_196986729.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22201206\/SEI_196986729.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22201206\/SEI_196986729.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22201206\/SEI_196986729.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22201206\/SEI_196986729.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22201206\/SEI_196986729.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22201206\/SEI_196986729.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22201206\/SEI_196986729.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22201206\/SEI_196986729.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22201206\/SEI_196986729.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22201206\/SEI_196986729.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2423964 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1351\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"Nasa's Earth Observatory\" data-caption=\"Increased exposure to wildfire smoke is one of the most damaging effects of climate change\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Increased exposure to wildfire smoke is one of the most damaging effects of climate change<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Nasa&amp;#039;s Earth Observatory<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Exposure to rising levels of wildfire smoke could lead to more than 10,000 additional deaths each year in the US by 2050. This could make deaths due to wildfire smoke the costliest consequence of climate change for the country, accounting for nearly as much economic damage as all other climate-related impacts combined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt completely reshapes how we think about the climate impact in the US,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/minghao-qiu\">Minghao Qiu<\/a> at Stanford University in California. Exposure\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2423807-wildfire-smoke-may-be-deadliest-effect-of-climate-change-in-us\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Increased exposure to wildfire smoke is one of the most damaging effects of climate change Nasa&amp;#039;s Earth Observatory Exposure to rising levels of wildfire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334221,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216852\/revisions\/334221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}