New York City has some of the worst air quality in the country this week because of smoke that has drifted south from wildfires burning in Canada.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos and State Department of Health (DOH) Commissioner Dr. James McDonald issued an Air Quality Health Advisory for the Long Island, New York City Metro, Lower Hudson Valley, Upper Hudson Valley, Eastern Lake Ontario, Central New York and Western New York regions for Thursday, June 8, 2023.
The air quality is forecasted to reach ‘Unhealthy’ AQI levels on Thursday in the New York City Metro, Long Island, Eastern Lake Ontario, Central and Western regions.
The advisory will be in effect from 12 a.m. through 11:59 p.m. on Thursday. Accuweather forecasts expect air quality problems to persist into the evening and into Friday.
Active children and adults, and people with respiratory problems, such as asthma, should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors.
Exposure to particles can cause short-term health effects such as irritation to the eyes, nose, and throat, coughing, sneezing, runny nose, and shortness of breath. Exposure to elevated levels of fine particulate matter can also worsen medical conditions such as asthma and heart disease. People with heart or breathing problems, and children and the elderly may be particularly sensitive to PM 2.5.
When outdoor levels are elevated, going indoors may reduce exposure. If there are significant indoor sources of PM 2.5 (tobacco, candle or incense smoke, or fumes from cooking) levels inside may not be lower than outside. Some ways to reduce exposure are to minimize outdoor and indoor sources and avoid strenuous activities in areas where fine particle concentrations are high.
New York City’s education department canceled all outdoor activities Wednesday, as wildfire smoke wafted from Canada and created unhealthy air conditions across a swath of the Northeast.
Recess, Public School Athletic League sports competitions, and outdoor field days were all canceled, Nathaniel Styer, an education department spokesperson, wrote on Twitter late Tuesday evening. Schools were encouraged to move those activities indoors if possible.
“This is a developing situation and will communicate updates as they come,” Styer wrote.
City officials said that schools will remain open.
The ratings for air quality levels across the five boroughs reached into the 150s Tuesday, according to the U.S. government online platform AirNow. Those levels are considered unhealthy for all people and significantly above exposure recommendations from the World Health Organization.
The sky over the city had an orange glow Tuesday morning and the sun was largely obscured by a smoky haze. Officials warned residents to limit time outdoors and emphasized people with respiratory illnesses or heart disease are especially vulnerable to the dangerous air quality conditions.
The smoky skies are the result of more than 160 forest fires burning in Quebec during what federal officials say is shaping up to be among Canada’s worst fire seasons ever.
These fires are from Jackson, NJ.
They’re having wildfires currently.
I took my rain hat to shul today, because it looked like it was going to rain.
For a couple minutes a few drops
I hear its coming from LKWD & Jackson NJ
There is a massive wild fire burning in NJ adding to this chaos from Canada 🇨🇦
And a recent brushfire in the south of Brooklyn
As well as a big fire somewhere along the i87 on memorial day weekend.
So many coincidences to scare us into compliance when the hammer drops.
Never again
…there is no such thing as coincidences. This is not a coincidence nor is this unexpected. We’ve known about global warming since 1938 and we have seen our climate crumble further and further, year after year. I wonder what it will take to spur the world into action. Millions dying from Covid didn’t inspire everyone to wear their masks or get vaccinated, and maybe millions of deaths caused through the destruction of our planet won’t cause everyone to support climate change action. Humanity at large may have lost its ability to empathize and value human life. We will see what… Read more »
And yet in the 1970s it was all about “global cooling” instead. And when they finally realized that no one is buying their hooey, they rebranded it as “climate change” so that every “change” can be played up into a big crisis.
No, the cause of these wildfires is largely that no removal of dead trees or brush is allowed any more, because, you know, we have to hug the trees instead.
As far as I know the Jewish people believe this world was created with a purpose! To do Torah and Mitzvos and serve hashem making the world a place for him! This is spelled out pretty clearly in our Torah! If he desires to destroy the world that has got nothing to do with us, though as far as the Torah tells us that’s not in the plans!! But if it were, we would have nothing to say or complain about! We have to do what hashem wants from us and stop worrying about some scientists predicting the end of… Read more »
We shouldn’t give tzedakkah or daven for a refuah, because why worry? Hashem already has a plan that has nothing to do with us, so just sit back and let things play out no matter how badly they might go.
There is a mitzvah to give tzedakah. There is a mitzvah to daven. There is no mitzvah to worry about “global warming,” at least not in our religion.
there’s also the greatest mitzvah we have: v’ahavta l’rei’echa ka’mocha.
When the planet goes up in flames, people and animals die. It doesn’t seem like we’re keeping the mitzvah of loving our neighbor when we do nothing to save their lives.
You really believe that not using your air conditioner can save your neighbors life?!! Go ahead sit in the heat, don’t travel, go kll the cows! But hate to break it to you none of those things are making any difference to your neighbors life! And thinking that the world is gonna end because of climate change means you don’t believe that the world has a purpose! Also you don’t believe in Hashem’s promise to Noach! This has no connection to davening for someone’s health, which is essentially asking Hashem to change his mind and make the person better! This… Read more »
תשש כחה של חמה (הגוים שמונין לחמה) לעתיד לבוא
Already started!!!
And why all the wild fires? I’m glad you asked!
כי הנה ה’ באש יבא
Global warming continues to increase wildfires and air pollution
Failing to cut down dead trees and brush continues to increase wildfires. Other kinds of pollution have in fact decreased over the decades.
I’m highly concerned that you’re not reading credible news sources or scientific evidence. For the sake of your mind and your health, please only consume facts and leave the lies to trump.
And I notice that you have no facts to refute me with, and that Trump lives rent-free in your brain.
Its been of the coolest springs. Canada had snow in May and lots of rain and very cold temperatures. So please, let’s set the record straight. It is cold and rainy in Canada, this was not due to any heat.
Our air here is fine. Not coming from here
It’s coming from you. The wind is just pulling the air in our direction. Thanks!
Is it clear yet? Is it safe for those individuals mentioned in the article to go out yet?
It’s coming in all five boroughs of New York area.
Funny that we’re not feeling or seeing or smelling it.
The air/wind moved it forward to New York. But in New York the odor is very high and the air/atmosphere is the color of orange – literally.
What she’s saying is that in order for the smoke to get to you it would need to pass from upper Quebec where the fires supposedly are to Montreal and then ny. Montreal is in between ny and the fires. And it’s definitely odd that it’s worse here than Montreal when it must pass through Montreal to get here.
Look at a map.
It’s Beautiful outside the media is trying to create a scare a while, fires and smoke. Meanwhile, creating the fires on purpose to get people to stay inside and wear masks for the smoke. It’s really scary, almost like another COVID.
Take it easy on the conspiracy theories
Why?
Conspiracy theories caused people to die from covid, it caused people to attack our capitol, it caused people to not vote in our elections, and it causes people to disbelieve scientific evidence that our planet is on fire.
Stop spreading lies.
Let’s reword that:
Conspiracy theorists said that Covid was caused by a lab leak, and have been shown to be correct.
Conspiracy theorists claimed that the “attack on the Capitol” was the United States’ Reichstag Fire, an excuse to curtail civil liberties, and have been shown to be correct.
Conspiracy theorists have said that “global warming” is an excuse to destroy Western economies while giving the actual polluters, such as China, a pass, and have been shown to be correct.
So instead of calling the “conspiracy theorists,” maybe you ought to call them clairvoyants.
The beginning of today’s chitas talks about smoke clouds and fire.
From Hayom Yom: https://www.sie.org/templates/…..s.htm A person’s life depends upon the air around him: without air one cannot live. Moreover, the kind of air in which one lives determines the quality of one’s life. When a person lives in an atmosphere of Torah and mitzvos, his life is healthy. When he lives in an atmosphere that denies G‑d, his life is sickly and he is under constant risk of contagion. The first, comprehensive remedy is to purify the air, and this is the responsibility of those who are educated in Torah studies. It is the letters of Torah that purify the… Read more »
and I am not a sissy .
If there was ever a time when religious Jews should accept the fact that global warming is real like all scientists have proven, it would be now. Is this not proof enough?
I’m sorry, but many of us here learn Talmud. We know how to question the proofs that people provide.
How in the world do fires in Canada prove global warming?
Gzeira shava warm warm?
Knowing Talmud makes you smarter than a scientist who specifically studies and has earned degrees on this topic? Why do people think that they’re smarter than doctors and scientists? What in the world could possibly make you delusional enough to believe that you have a better grasp on the global impact of carbon emissions than a qualified scientist?
It makes you less susceptible to groupthink and outright lies and falsifications (see, for example, “hide the decline”).
My point was that as Talmudic students, you can’t just tell us: “Look! There’s a fire! Global warming must be real” as the OP tried to do.
We need more substantial proof than that.
I’m not saying there isn’t any proof (that is up for debate) just this isn’t proof
Was the Miramichi fire in 1825 that burned millions of acres of forests in Canada also because of global warming?
What about the Black Forest fire in Germany 1760?
The Palisades fire in New Jersey 1764?
Were these all because of a rise in carbon emissions?
I encourage you to ask a well educated scientist who has studied the topic instead of coming to your own uneducated conclusions. Said scientist may be able to explain the impact of the rise of carbon emissions and provide you with scientific evidence, thereby answering your questions.
It is good to question things, but the questions must be followed up with facts and truth and science. If you answer a question with a lie or a conspiracy theory, you gain nothing but further lies.
Good thing you weren’t born a couple thousand years ago otherwise the earth would presumably still be flat for you
Progress is essential to the bettering of humanity. BH we now have access to updated facts and evidence, new technology and sounder science. Those who deny progress today in 2023 probably still think that the earth is flat.
Which is how we can easily see that a lot of today’s “science” is anything but. It’s a religion, complete with high priests and dogmas that are not to be questioned, and we have a perfectly good religion of our own already, BH.
Don’t use BH all the time if your speaking about your distrust in Torah and instead your reliance and trust in scientists who are mere humans, another of His creations.
We have Torah. It is G-d’s wisdom. If you’d like answers that are truth, turn to it. Not towards mortals who’s wisdom is flawed by our comprehension of nothing and limited by the ignorance of so much (thus needing to constantly being updated and changed). The truth is in front of you, you can take it or leave it
The OP claimed that this is obvious proof that the scientists are right about global warming.
My question was: How is this proof?
Telling me to ask the scientists goes against the OP’s point
All the scientists?
How about the many that were censored?
The evidence that was suppressed?
Like how The Science only starts counting from the coldest point in history and conveniently ignores the cycle before?
Or how co2 is only 1% of the air and therefore cannot possibly have a major impact.
The carbon they want to reduce is you!
The only people imposing censorship in this country are the same ones who claim are being censored themselves. You can’t have it both ways. Republicans can’t censor harmless reading material in schools but then also have bogus scientists with no proof or credibility spreading falsities.
No actual, credible evidence has been suppressed. Smart people are just labeling lies as lies so that America as a whole doesn’t become as poorly educated as yourself.
Have you bothered looking into what that “harmless reading material in schools” is? It’s the furthest thing from “harmless.”
Meanwhile, yes, there has been credible evidence that has been suppressed; look up Judith Curry for an example. Or Tim Ball. See, putting your hands over your eyes and saying “la-la-la, I don’t see you” doesn’t mean that something doesn’t exist.
And the weather in June is 50 degrees in the morning, more like global cooling.
Wait, do you actually believe that global warming literally means that it is getting hotter outside?
Every time there’s an event connected to heat they scream global warming from all the rooftops! Every climate disaster that happens they scream climate change, like we’re supposed to believe there were no climate disasters until some scientist discovered global warming! How does any thinking person believe that are world is about to implode? Especially if they believe in G-D!!
Its been very cold in Canada. It snowed in North Quebec in May. Give me a break.
They should cancel school tomorrow. It’s unsafe to be outside!
I had no idea my kids sit and learn outside all day /sarc
But seriously do not comply with any school shutdowns!
Have we not learned from the dishonest COVID measures?
The government will never allow you to open back up like they already tried last time.
Nah you can keep your kids home and at the whims of some politician in Albany or Washington.
My kids chinuch matters and if school shuts I hope to open an underground cheder at home with classmates friends and neighbors. Especially if they try to outlaw visitors shuls and Yiddishe businesses again.
if you still don’t believe the countless scientists, now would be a good time to accept fact and reality
Please explain
Because “The Science”
Brought to by Fauci and Pfizer
Or even better
By John Kerry who has no problem flying his private jet any time he wishes
Or
Obama who bought himself a waterfront mansion
Bc soon the sea levels will rise and flood his place.
Lol
Look outside and welcome to our new reality. Do you want your kids and grandkids to have to wear a mask every day when they step outside the door? Do you want to forget what the sky looks like? Do you not care about Hashem’s creations? The planet will continue to die, humans will continue to die, animals will continue to die. This seems like something we should all care about
And yet pollution has been going down for decades now; one freak season doesn’t change that trend. If you care to look at facts, that is.
I agree. If the planet was on fire that would be DEVASTATING and dangerous. Even masks probably wouldn’t help! (shocker, I know)
However, I only noticed a forest on fire, not the planet.
How does this prove global warming?
Please don’t bring Hashem into your religion! The religion you ascribe too has nothing to do with G-D. Hashem created the world with a purpose, for sure we should respect it, but at the same time it’s here for us to serve Hashem, not for us to serve the world! And it’s not about to end, Hashem already promised that to Noach! Also if you believe in Hashem, then even if it were to end you would know that that’s what Hashem wants and you wouldn’t be so worried about it!!
Its been one of the coldest springs in Canada. We had below zero temps in May. Snow in North Quebec in May. Lots of rain and cold. Its very cold now as well.
If anything, this is one of the coldest springs ever.
Sometimes I wonder, why am I shocked anew each day at how gullible and ignorant people are.
Has no one learnt from covid that masks are Bs?
I really feel for those who feel the need to wear a mask alone in their car today.
I’ve even seen poor kids forced to wear a mask on the school bus.
Why????
Yes it’s Smokey outside. I get it. I see it and smell it.
Kids getting a little fresh air outside won’t die. If the child is bh healthy, please let them live in peace.
1,127,152 people in America died from Covid, and you’re still pretending? It’s not only ignorant on your part, but it’s also disrespectful to those who passed away and to the family members who are left living with that loss every day. Show some kavod and sechel.
no one is denying the fact that people died from covid, people are questioning the effectiveness of masks and if people should be forced to wear them.
If a mask prevents even one person from getting sick, not wearing one should not even be an option. Halacha requires that we value life above all else.
And if wearing a mask causes even one person to get sick (and they have), then what? Not to mention the long-term effects on kids’ development, etc.
Or study ד”ה שיר המעלות תשכ”ב
My parents live in Canada and said the fires all over Canada mysteriously started about the same time. Also they caught a few arsonists in Nova Scotia as well.
Climate Plandemic coming to limit your access to electricity, transportation and food.
Hunger is a Hallmark of every communist takeover. And the useful idiots who enabled the revolution are always eliminated first.
this is the dumbest conspiracy theory I’ve heard yet, you win the gold medal for spreading stupid
Like so many other “conspiracy theories” – the COVID lab leak, for example, or like banning gas stoves – that turned out to be true?
Climate activitists are setting fires.
The idea that this happened from heat is believable only if you live in a bubble. It has been unusually cold, and rainy where these fires are coming from. In May, there was below freezing temps.
It has been cold, wet and rainy, excpet for one week of sunshine and heat. So, please, stop spreading lies about Global Warming. I live in North of Montreal and its been freezing cold and wet.
The air quality rating for brooklyn right now on the iPhone app is 395 which is rated as ‘hazardous’. Best stay inside with closed windows, no ac, and turn air purifiers on if possible.