Comment by seadan83

Interesting.

Was the smoke less toxic?

With lower populations, the smoke impacted less population?

Is a large part of this the fact that fire supressiondid did not occur on industrial scale?

How comparable is the situation? I've heard that it is possible that california has been abnormally wet for the last 500 years. Could be a case of settling cities on a volcano. Ie: it erupts frequently on a geologic scale, but on a human time scale it is a complete surprise