By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--June 7, 2023
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We’ve reached an all-time zenith high in the ongoing government-obsessed Global Warming/Climate Change push, courtesy of the hireling ecos and activists on government payrolls: They’re now willing to burn down entire nations to make their point—come hell or high water.
Borrowing a line from former U.S. Congressman Allen West, who once garnered American media attention for telling a Muslim activist who challenged him at a town hall meeting in February, 2011 not to “blow smoke up my butt and tell me it’s warm and fuzzy”, the government and media are blowing forest fire smoke up all of our wazoos.
America/media/EPA scare mongering 101: ‘Canadian wildfire smoke disrupting air quality for millions of Americans: ‘Can travel deep into the lungs’(Fox News, June 6, 2023)
“The air quality in the New England states may be unhealthy for millions of Americans right now – especially for those with underlying medical conditions – due to a surge in Canadian wildfires in Quebec and northern Ontario, according to a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) press release.
"Areas predicted to exceed the federal air quality standard for 24-hour particle pollution level concentrations on June 6 are: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire (central, south and western parts of the state), Rhode Island, and Vermont," the statement reads.
“The Quebec province had 387 forest fires this year, which is nearly double the 10-year average of 197, according to SOPFEU, a Canadian nonprofit whose mission is fire prevention.
“Satellite images show toxic smoke drifting from Chicago and Indianapolis to Cincinnati and Wisconsin – suggesting people were breathing in the harmful air from Wisconsin to West Virginia on Sunday, per recent report.”
What about all those New Yorkers smelling what they thought were campfires and neighbor’s barbecues from the smoke of Nova Scotia’s out of control raging forest fires?
That was last week, now it’s not just Nova Scotia endangering the lives of Americans—but all of Canada. (Canada Free Press)
How’s this for ‘The Sky is Falling’ scare mongering from Canada’s largest newspaper?
‘There are dangerous particles in the smoke we’re breathing: ‘It doesn’t seem like any part of the body is safe’ (Toronto Star, June 7, 2023)
“And that means getting used to the increased risk of lung disease, heart disease, cancer and the resultant strain on already taxed health-care resources that comes along with it.
“As of Tuesday, most of southern and eastern Ontario and a large swath of Quebec were under Special Air Quality Statements largely thanks to Quebec wildfires burning out of control.
“Those statements get issued when the Air Quality Health Index — an amalgamation of measurements of the concentrations of pollutants and forecast weather conditions — reaches seven on a scale that goes to 10+.
“Residents of portions of the Rockies west of Jasper, northern Alberta and B.C. as well as southern N.W.T. found themselves in similar situations due to fires in those areas.
Holy Cow, will burning-out-of-control wildfires even take down the Rockies?
“This region is being impacted or is likely to be impacted by wildfire smoke over the next 24-48 hours,” said those advisories. (Toronto Star)
“Wildfire smoke can be harmful to everyone’s health even at low concentrations. Continue to take actions to protect your health and reduce exposure to smoke.”
As if people, on their own, aren’t taking actions “to protect (their) health and reduce exposure to smoke.”
“An extraordinary start to the spring fire season has seen wildfires burning — unusually — from coast to coast, goosed by dry, hot and windy conditions. (Toronto Star)
“GOOSED” by dry, hot and windy conditions? Not here in now smoke-free Nova Scotia, where many of us are still wearing Winter clothes.
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“And as climate changes progress unabated, we can expect to see more of those conditions and consequently more frequent and severe wildfires. (Toronto Star)
“With those fires come smoke — lots of it — and with that come health hazards for millions of Canadians. And as wildfires become more common and more severe, continued exposure to that smoke will begin to affect the full breadth of the population: not just the elderly and children and those with pre-existing health conditions, but the young and the healthy as well.
“The culprit is known — in the lexicon of the country’s Air Quality Health Index — as PM2.5. It’s one of three pollutants measured by the AQHI, the others being ozone and nitrogen dioxide.
“PM2.5 is the by-product of the smoke emitted by wildfires — fine particles of matter with a size of 2.5 microns or less. “You could fit about 30 of them across the width of a hair.
“At this size, PM2.5 can easily sift down through air passages to the depths of the lungs. At that size, it can also pass into the blood, causing a system-wide inflammation that can exacerbate heart conditions and potentially cause cancers.
“Those particles are capable of infiltrating almost every organ in the body, said Matt Adams, director of the Centre for Urban Environments at the University of Toronto.
“As the science evolves and our ability to detect them increases, we keep finding them more and more places,” he said. “We found them on the other side of the placental barrier in babies. We found these particles in the brain, for example.
“It doesn’t seem like any part of the body is safe.”
“Once they’re in the body, one of the problems of assessing the damage potentially caused by PM2.5s is that we don’t really know enough about them or how badly they might hurt us.
“Because it’s so complex, we don’t know what is in them,” said Arthur Chan, associate professor of chemical engineering and applied chemistry at U of T.
“There are just thousands of different compounds. There are many different research groups that are studying what is in them and what might be the most toxic components.”
“We do know that one of its components are PAHs — short for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons — primarily caused by incomplete combustion of organic materials, like wood, said Chan. And we do know that PAHs are carcinogenic — they’ve been linked to lung cancer and other forms of cancer — and mutagenic, meaning they can make changes in the DNA, which can also lead to cancers.
So, the danger exists, though we don’t yet know the full extent.”
Are we talking about the same MRNA spike proteins, suspected of making radical changes in the human DNA, and are causing untold injuries and deaths, or toxic smoke from burning forest fires?
Is the toxic smoke from current wildfires just a smoke screen to cover the three years of damage, government lockdowns, face mask and vaccine mandates during COVID-19?
“In short-term, isolated incidents, that poor air quality generally affects a portion of the population. (Toronto Star)
“Asthma sufferers might need to treat themselves with their puffers; the elderly, or children, whose lungs are still developing might need a visit to the doctor or the hospital. People with heart issues might find those conditions aggravated by even a short exposure.”
The following ‘news’ was 26 paragraphs down in the story:
“Generally speaking, for most people, in an isolated incident, where the source of the smoke stops, the symptoms from that smoke irritation clear up after a few days.
“But when the exposure to wildfire smoke goes on for extended periods — as seems likely in the near future — those whose systems are compromised suffer even more, and even the young and healthy will begin to develop chronic long-term lung and heart conditions and possibly cancers as well.
In other words, death is the only known-to-man way out of Killer Global Warming.
The Star’s opening paragraph:
“As the skies fill with haze and wildfire smoke turns the moon red, prompting poor air quality warnings over large chunks of Ontario and Quebec, experts are warning that, barring any major climate-change mitigating factors, we may have to get used to this.”
The story ends with:
“The big picture is to find ways of hitting at the root of the problem — mitigating climate change.”
Will “MITIGATING” climate change, end up the same way as MITIGATING the spread of COVID-19?
“In the meantime, when wildfire smoke fills the sky, the best bet is to limit exposure to it, said Adams. Stay inside, find a clean airspace and avoid strenuous activities.
“The best resource we have really is to understand when it’s a risky day and change those behaviours.”
No doubt that every day is a “risky day” as long as the current powerbrokers are running scare-mongering Canadian and U.S. governments.
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