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Elon Musk✓@elonmusk Yeah, it’s mostly fake Peter St Onge, Ph.D.✓@profstonge Tax-funded astroturf. Meaning for any country all you have to do is get a populist in one time, DOGE that sucker, and the entire left simply vanishes 🤯

Smoke and ash from urban wildfires, like those in Los Angeles, may put people at risk of short- and long-term health problems The fires raging in Los Angeles have destroyed thousands of structures, and the death toll is rising. Along with the wildfires, residents must deal with other hazards: smoke and ash. Smoke is made of tiny particles. Smoke particles 2.5 micrometers or smaller in size — known as PM2.5 — are particularly concerning in terms of health. This is because they can enter deep into the airways and tissue of the lungs. The particles can even travel from the...

The study, which explores how particulate pollution impacts the adolescent brain, involves 10,000 youth and is among the first of its kind. According to a recent study by the University of Colorado Boulder, which analyzed 10,000 children aged 9 to 11, each additional day of exposure to wildfire smoke and other severe air pollutants slightly increases the risk of mental health issues in young people. “We found that a greater number of days with fine particulate air pollution levels above EPA standards was associated with increased symptoms of mental illness, both during the year of exposure and up to one...

Shocking photos captured smoke billowing out of a Russia-controlled nuclear power plant in Ukraine — a “reckless” attack that risked a major “nuclear accident,” according to the head of the international nuclear watchdog. Thick, black smoke was seen Sunday exiting the top of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that Russia captured shortly after launching its full-scale attack on Ukraine in 2022. The massive fire followed multiple explosions hitting the vast, six-reactor facility, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog, which has staff there. “These reckless attacks endanger nuclear safety at the plant and increase the risk of...

Marijuana is 'as bad as smoking tobacco cigarettes,' an expert said

BLACK smoke enveloped the Lincoln Memorial after a vehicle fire broke out about five miles from the monument. Plumes from the crash hang over the National Mall, but the fire has been extinguished, according to DC Fire and EMS. The crash on the southbound lanes of the George Washington Parkway involved a "pickup truck and trailer" per Arlington Fire and EMS, reported local Fox affiliate WTTG. It brought "dark black and light white smoke," according to WTTG, near the Lincoln Memorial. No immediate injuries have been reported. The fire has caused commuter delays.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation rejoiced yesterday as smoke rose from the White House, indicating the elderly President has survived yet another year. "Look! There it is!" said a jubilant crowd of bureaucrats, Chinese spies, and other interested onlookers as Biden's 81 birthday candles were set ablaze and produced a column of thick, black smoke that rose into the horizon above the nation's capital. "The President! He still lives! Rejoice, for our leader's body still draws breath, leaving us free to keep running the government behind his back!" Sources say the plume of smoke was visible for miles around...

China's People's Liberation Army - Navy ship "Longushan" is reportedly ablaze just off the coast of China tonight. The vessel is reported to be "China's most advanced warship." No OFFICIAL word on what caused the fire. I am not sure if China has acknowledged the fire yet ... All mention of this is being rapidly scrubbed from China social media networks, and no official information is coming out of Beijing. The vessel bears Hull Number 980 and is described as a Type 071 landing ship. China's fifth Type 071 amphibious transport dock (LPD) Longhushan; with hull number 980) was commissioned...

A noxious smoke plume from swamp fires in the marsh is blowing over the New Orleans area, causing air quality to plummet, according to air monitors throughout the metro area. The smoky air from the peat fires, which smells like burning rubber, is irritating to the eyes, nose, throat and lungs. Burning peat, which is the decaying vegetation underground, releases a large amount of carbon and produces tiny particles known as PM 2.5 that are harmful to health.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Smoke rose from the Capitol building early this afternoon, indicating that Congress had resumed shoveling taxpayer dollars into a giant bonfire. "They're back at it," said local resident Milton Dennings, watching the cloud of smoke rise. "Well. All good things must come to an end." After three weeks of Congress being hamstrung by having no Speaker of the House, the glowing embers of the last trillion dollars set on fire had at last begun to fade. "So, if we can't light money on fire, what exactly are we doing here?" asked Representative Tom Emmer, twiddling his thumbs....

Dense fog and smoke from two marsh fires collided early Monday to create a "superfog" that blanketed Interstate 55, causing a mile of deadly, chain-reaction crashes that killed seven motorists and shut down the highway in both directions, authorities said.

New Yorkers could wake up to hazy skies Monday morning as smoke from ongoing Canadian wildfires is expected to reach the Big Apple by sunrise. New York City officials sounded the alarm Sunday over the potential plume of wildfire smoke two days after Mayor Eric Adams faced backlash for not issuing a more forceful warning leading up to heavy rain that flooded parts of the city Friday. Current forecasts indicate the Air Quality Index will be about 55, which means “there may be some risk to people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution,” the city said in a press...

Our office was at a breakfast meeting where the random subject came up of employees being effected by second-hand drug smoke on their way to work. One man complained that his associate was exposed to it just outside their building. She became disorientated and quickly fell ill. He then took the issue to the building manager to press the building security guard to sweep the whole block every morning of the homeless squatters who were doing drugs. Having private security move trespassing drug addicts off a city block is extremely difficult as they have little resources, little manpower and police...

Researchers found that a person who vapes from a disposable or pod-based device such as a Juul dispels 22 times the safe level of microscopic toxins known as particulate matter, which is small enough that when inhaled can cause respiratory issues and enter the bloodstream. The findings poke holes in the belief held by many e-cigarette users that the devices are safe to use in public, indoors or around others because they do not produce the traditional pungent smoke released by traditional cigarettes, which contains thousands of chemicals, dozens of which are carcinogens.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Jeremiah 17:9-10 (King James Version) Finally, the East Coast is getting a taste of the smoke the West Coast gets every fall. The same people who have destroyed the forests of the West are getting a sample of what it is to live through weeks of thick smoke coming off those dead and dying forests waiting for a spark...

I've not seen a conspiratorial thread posted (yet) that questions this phenomenon, and I think we should talk about this.

Smoke from the Canadian wildfires has traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and reached Europe as part of the worst fire season in history for the northern forests, officials say. The smoke that left New York City covered in an orange smog earlier this month was spotted arriving in the United Kingdom on Monday, with pictures from space depicting the arrival of the haze, according to the UK Met Office. Fortunately for the British, the powerful jet-stream winds that carried the smoke across the pond helped dissipate the strength of the smog by the time it reached the shores of the...

Mainstream media mavens in New York City, Washington, D.C., and other major cities on the U.S. East Coast blanketed by smoke from Canada’s wildfires went into overdrive saying the event was unprecedented and provided further proof that catastrophic climate change is occurring. Whether they were ignorant of the facts and believed what they said or are so far in the bag on climate alarmism they couldn’t let the facts get in the way of another story hyping the purported climate crisis, they were wrong or lying on every count. Wildfires happen every year throughout the United States and Canada --...

Back during the last solar eclipse over the continental United States in 2017, grid operators in California had to make adjustments to the electricity grid to account from the lost solar power during the 90 minutes or so that the eclipse dimmed sunlight in California. Such is the sensitivity of solar power to clouds and other obstructions such as routine dust, winter snow, and . . . forest fire smoke. The northeast is learning this right now amidst the smoke plume blowing down from Canada.

Wildfires raging across six of Canada's 13 provinces and territories have caused havoc nationwide for the last six weeks - forcing mass evacuations and burning through more than 3.3 million hectares of land, larger than the state of Maryland. With the smoke now billowing down to the East Coast of the United States, affecting 75 million Americans, the dire threat to Canada's forests has come into sharp focus. Some blame lax forest management, arguing that not enough controlled burns are being carried out thanks to campaigns by environmentalists. In 2020, four scientists wrote a paper published in Progress in Disaster...