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Smoke from massive wildfires creates haze in Minnesota sky #shorts 99%
7/17/2026, 1:44:27 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Availability Heuristic, and Composition/Division, with Overconfidence Bias as the most egregious example at 39.7% saturation with 100 hits. Analysis detected 767 faulty-reasoning hits from 252 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 98.7% and a BS Rank of 99% (299 of 17,095 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.30% of the video peer group.
This is just wild to walk around the boardwalk here in downtown Wayzata, Minnesota, right on Lake Minnetonka, and there's nobody here.
The No kids playing. No shoppers walking.
Looking out of the windows.
Nobody eating at the lunch hour sitting outside.
This is summer living in Minnesota, or at least it should be.
And right now, there's nothing because of all the smoke that's in the air.
All the smoke that has been billowing from these massive wildfires in northern Minnesota, but also in Canada, in Quebec, and in Ontario, and in Manitoba, and in Saskatchewan, and Alberta, all the way to the Northwest Territories.
We're talking about smoke that's traveling 2,000 mi away.
So, smoke traveling here the same distance as if you're traveling from Minneapolis to Miami.
That's the kind of smoke we're talking about.
Fires that are out of control in Canada, and I've been speaking with the Canadian authorities.
This is obviously not authorities.
unprecedented in the sense that it seems to happen now, these summers of smoke, every summer.
And because of the heat, because of the lack of snowpack, because in the winter you didn't have the cold temperatures or the precipitation to saturate the ground,
you just have so much fuel for these fires.
Canada makes up nearly 10% of all the forests in the world.
So, that's how much fuel there is to keep these fires burning.
And where there's fire, there's smoke.
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