Smoke & Mirrors

Much of the East Coast from New England to Washington, D.C., has gotten a rude awakening from Mother Nature. Our prayers go out to everyone impacted by the terrible air quality caused by the smoke from massive Canadian forest fires. 

Surprisingly, nobody has aroused Sleepy Joe Biden to address it, and it is a big deal. Hundreds of flights out of New York City have been canceled. 

But plenty of progressive politicians are running their mouths nonstop. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doubling down on her Green New Deal, which really isn’t about the environment. 

Teenage influencers are all over social media essentially saying, “This is why we must crush conservatives -- to save the planet!” Of course, none of them know anything about history.  They act like the world started yesterday. 

They should learn about the New England Dark Day of 1780. At noon on May 19, 1780, it looked like midnight. People thought the world was ending. Scientists later determined that massive wildfires in Canada sent massive amounts of smoke drifting down into New England.

That was 243 years ago. There were no factories, no SUVs. The population of the world was many times smaller. Yet that massive wildfire happened. 

More recently, a similar event occurred in 1950.  It was the same phenomena – huge Canadian wildfires broke out and the winds blew smoke into the U.S.

In spite of all the left’s hyperventilating, this has nothing to do with climate change. If anything, it points out the hubris of suggesting that we can control climate change. Mother Nature is making the air quality worse in Ohio than all the pollution in China!

But one thing is for certain: Thanks to the Industrial Revolution and modern technology, we are much better prepared and better equipped to combat and contain wildfires today than we were in 1780.

Sadly, the left will exploit anything, even nature and the weather, to gain power.