Eric Adams, Swagger Man with no plan
Posted on 06/07/2023 1:28:50 PM PDT by Morgana
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has urged millions of residents to remain indoors after hazardous smoke from Canadian wildfires bellowed across the border.
Huge swaths of the nation from the Northeast to the Great Lakes are braced for several more days of smog, while Canadian officials continue to grapple with over 400 wildfires.
A thick, nicotine-yellow haze shrouded the famous Big Apple skyline Wednesday as the city became the most polluted in the world, with its Air Quality Index score soaring past 200, which is deemed 'very unhealthy'.
More than a dozen US states and over 100 million people are under air quality alerts, prompting many to start wearing pandemic-era masks.
Health experts warned that breathing the fog can be as damaging as smoking 14 cigarettes a day. Nanoparticles from the smog are so small they can penetrate the lungs and bloodstream, with side effects also including irritation to the eyes and throat as well as breathing problems.
A sheet of smoke from the wildfires first descended on New York on Tuesday before thickening throughout the afternoon, leaving those in Manhattan unable to see the New Jersey skyline across the Hudson River.
As well as sending New Yorkers inside, air quality alerts were also introduced in states including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois, Virginia and the Carolinas, according to the National Weather Service.
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Cigs go for $14 a pack in NYC.
It’s not that bad. It’s sort of like the ‘60s.
Worse than downwind of China’s coal fired plants?
Really? Most polluted in the world? Drama queen. Ottawa was showing over 400 on the EPA map and I’ll bet 200 would be a record clean-air day for New Delhi, Islamabad, Mexico City or Beijing.
Eric Adams, Swagger Man with no plan
Happens every year in the PNW. We don’t get stories about us though.
Living up here, I have to say the freak out that is going on is almost as idiotic as that for (harmless to most) Omnicron back in 2021-2022. It’s a wildfire folks, not a nuclear catastrophe.
Forest fire smoke is toxic nanoparticles?
Why do they instantly go to panic over anything?
For politics? Its what they do.
This is something that has happened many times since the dense forests covered Canada’s northeast since the retreat of the ice sheet.
He could say..
Stand back and see something unusual, wonder about how the cycle works, take precautions if you are sensitive.
But no, never miss a chance to scream climate change along with the right adjectives.
Mr. mm and I were outside today doing a LOT of yard work.
It needed to be done anyways, but the cooler temperatures kept the bugs down and we have no smoke from these fires in our location.
I figured we should do what we needed to today while the air quality was good because a slight change in the wind direction could change all that.
I would just buy the occasional Loosie cig then, if I can still find someone to buy from.
OMG! Unless one suffers from asthma or another respiratory illness, I don't see the problem.
Thought that as well. Though pyromaniacs did not come to mind. I thought of people a bit more dangerous.
LOL!
The Climate Lock-downs have started
Oh , smokers don’t have to worry , just carry on
Yeah stay inside on account of them toxic nano particles can’t get in.
It’s pretty bad out here in Suffolk County on LI.
He’s a POS like every liberal.
I don’t get it. I live 3 1/2 hours from Ottawa. About the same time from the Niagara Falls border. We have white haze here, nothing yellow, and a slight smell of wood burning, but New York City, that is 4 hours south of me, has air quality far worse than here. Other than NY City being a $hithole, can anybody explain why they are experiencing such haze? Maybe all those crack pipes they handed out in the vending machines is adding to their problem.
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