Twinning Tweets: Infernos, literal and metaphorical

First, this item came in from the Vancouver Weekly:

Smoke-filled air envelopes southern B.C., as provincial wildfires turn deadly

VANCOUVER – A heavy blanket of stagnant grey haze has settled over British Columbia’s south coast as winds push smoke south from the many forest fires burning across the province. …

The B.C. government has taken the unusual step of imposing a provincewide ban on open burning as an unrelenting heat wave that began in early June sends temperatures soaring to record highs.

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Then this, from the New York Times:

Avoiding a Climate Inferno

The current issue of Science features a short, but forceful editorial by the journal’s editor in chief, the geophysicist Marcia K. McNutt, calling for humanity, after decades of delay, to get serious about cutting greenhouse-gas emissions linked to global warming.

“In Dante’s Inferno, he describes the nine circles of Hell, each dedicated to different sorts of sinners, with the outermost being occupied by those who didn’t know any better, and the innermost reserved for the most treacherous offenders. I wonder where in the nine circles Dante would place all of us who are borrowing against this Earth in the name of economic growth, accumulating an environmental debt by burning fossil fuels, the consequences of which will be left for our children and grandchildren to bear?”

And I guess I could add an item on the failure of the transit referendum, while the House is being called in to special session to approve an LNG deal.

But how much irony can we take at one time?