On Wednesday, New York held the dubious title of having the worst air quality in the world, with Detroit in second place, as plumes of smoke from hundreds of fires in Ontario and Quebec were carried south by a stiff breeze.
Toxic air warnings affected more than 110 million Americans across a dozen states as a sort of demonic tangerine pall engulfed major east coast cities, blotting out everything from the Empire State Building to the Lincoln Memorial.
A meteorologist with the National Weather Service noted that his town in upstate New York “looks like Mars”. It was the worst ever day for wildfire air pollution in recent US history and, as Joe Biden put it, “another stark reminder of the impacts of climate change”.
Far-left whackjob Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used the rare
air quality crisis to push progressives’ costly Green New Deal. She said: “Between NYC in wildfire smoke and this in PR, it bears repeating how unprepared we are for the climate crisis.”
Speaking of energy grids, Their precious solar collector installations are working at less than half normal generation capacity because the smoke is blocking the sun.
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