The current smoke is mainly from Quebec and Ontario. A few weeks ago, the east coast got a lot of smoke from fires in Alberta and British Columbia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/05/11/canada-wildfires-smoke-hazy-sunrise-dc/
What is going with all the fires in Canada?
In the general the air has gotten a lot cleaner since the 1970s. Is it just that nowadays we don’t have a high level of industrial smog to mask the smoke from wildfires?
I dunno, but I wait, with bated breath to see how you blame America, NATO, and The EU for the fires.
Poor forest management ?
Global warming is a universal scapegoat.
Teacher: Why don’t you have your homework Johnny?
Johnny: Experts agree that global warming is responsible.
Missouri is currently suffering from a scourge of wildfires as well, but coincidentally, it’s pretty much exclusive to federally managed lands. Can’t imagine why…
Aw, c’mon. You can do better than that.
I can absolutely tell you that we are feeling it here in NJ! In my area there is the haze and smell in the air!
Of course, any suggestion of sabotage is a whacked-out conspiracy theory.
https://twitter.com/JoshuaSteinman/status/1666329073579364352
There have been proposals to put directed energy weapons into space to shoot down ICBMs since the 1980s. Here is a report from 2019.
The funding proposal also includes money for a neutral particle beam effort which will “design, develop and conduct a feasibility demonstration for a space-based directed energy intercept layer,” the documents said. “These efforts will leverage past and current work on particle beam and related enabling technologies as well as laser scaling, pointing and stability to provide a component technology to improve the cost-benefit and size, weight and power for an operational system.”
A future system of this kind would offer new “kill options” for the nation’s ballistic missile defense architecture and add another layer of protection for the homeland, the documents said.
SPECIAL REPORT: The Pentagon Could Put Directed Energy Weapons in Space
Igniting tinder-dry vegetation should require only a tiny fraction of the energy required to shoot down a missile with greatly reduced targeting issues, but any suggestion that space-based weapons have been used to start wildfires is classified as ridiculous tin-foil-hat speculation.
It is bad in central Pennsylvania as well, but pictures from New York City look far worse.
There you go, that’s the stuff!
Thanks Bill!
Do you have anything beyond “experts blame global warming”?
How do you explain the simultaneous appearance of multiple fires spaced hundreds of miles apart?
Nope.
I can’t. Also, I don’t know if it’s true that they all started simultaneously.
Here are screen shots of the satellite images. It certainly appears that at least a dozen fires spaced hundreds of miles apart started more or less simultaneously. Nothing to see here, move on . . .
Well there you go.
So, let’s assume those are real, and that this is arson.
So next up, please tell us why the U S. and/or NATO set the fires, and why.
Bonus points for explaining how Putin actually turns out to be the hero.
If the fires are sabotage, it may well be the result of efforts by the Russians and/or Chinese, most likely through proxies. Proving the ultimate source may be nearly impossible.
There is an old saying: Don’t get mad get even. Russia lost billions of dollars when the US and/or US proxies destroyed the NordStream pipeline. Unprecedented wildfires in North America may be a consequence.
The US government has warned that wildfire attacks could be used by terrorists.
The vast majority of wildfires have a human origin. “Careless” campers could be a convenient cover.
Another day of Canadian smoke and flight delays along the east coast, but conditions are expected to improve.
Welcome to August/Sept in the Northwest.
I experienced similar conditions on the California coast a couple of years ago. The fires several hundred miles away in Oregon.
More “whacked-out conspiracy theories”:
Clear-sky lightning and global warming are the only acceptable explanations.
Climate change has sadly become a tautology used by the Left to explain any and every thing they find unpleasant
