Portland, Burlington and Boston were not down wind. The plume of smoke was west of those areas.
It makes smog. The fires in Canada provide a source but they are not the cause, nor is climate change, or global warming etc…
We see the hysteria and political exploitation and manipulation that constitutes or media and political establishment today.
I see no air quality alerts for Boston, Burlington VT or Portland ME which are all closer to the fires.
New York City is the epicenter of media hysteria and general irrationality and ignorance. I’m sure many of them do see this as some sort of unique event and apocalyptic.
I’ve seen days here in Southern California that resemble the
photos over the last day or so, from New York.
Today we never see those types of days any longer.
Now they belch about ozone pollution, but you don’t see it.
Look, yes if you’re look out miles away you can still see
air pollution, but let me explain where I am coming from.
In the 1970s and 80s, there were days when I could look
across the street and see smog between myself and the
buildings there. There simply isn’t that same concentration
of smog these days.
They still try to emphasize how bad it is, but it falls on
deaf ears with me. I’ve seen it bad, and we have nothing
like what we used to have.
It’s non-stop propaganda all the time these days. If it’s
not one issue, it’s ten others.
We have total idiots in and out of government.
As I happened to post a few days ago, NYC temperatures hit 100° on July 2, 1966, and 103° the next day, July 3.
Temperature right now in NYC is given as 69°. This morning it was 59°.
I live in Eastern Massachusetts. We had some very thick smoke a few weeks ago caused by the Albert wildfires. The plume from this one is affecting Central and western Massachusetts, but Eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire have been benefiting from and northeasterly sea breeze right now. That same system is carrying the Labrador wildfire smoke down to New York. The plume levels in Philadelphia are worse than New York, and New York is much worse than Boston.
>I’m sure many of them do see this as some sort of unique event and apocalyptic.
Pre-internet so yes, likely.
There are some good images of the plume here:
https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=39.4,-74.3,5z/date=2023-06-08,08:50,-7
Portland, Burlington and Boston were not down wind. The plume of smoke was west of those areas.
Paging Dr George Fischbeck. Dr George to the house courtesy phone......
In eastern Massachusetts we had a bad air alert this morning.