Clouds of Toxic Canadian Crud Are Once Again Blanketing U.S.

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Many Americans are waking up Friday to find heavy blankets of smoke hanging over their houses and air quality warnings popping up on their phones telling them not to go outside lest they succumb to the toxic crud. 

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Is it the apocalypse? No, it's the Canadians.

Once again, parts of the lower 48 are being victimized by our neighbors to the north, whose increasingly lax forestry management practices are allowing their forest fires to burn uncontrolled, leaving plumes of thick smoke to snake their way down into the U.S., reaching as far south as North Carolina.

Here's the trajectory the Canadian crud cloud is expected to take this weekend:

As Amy Curtis over at our sister site Townhall noted, we're being treated to the plumes of smoke and pervasive orange haze blocking the sun due to Canada's attempt to achieve "net zero" carbon emissions. They apparently think the way to achieve that is by refusing to do "proper forest management to prevent and mitigate wildfires."

More from Amy: "Turns out the Canadian eco police are letting hundreds of tons of carbon pour into our atmosphere hourly, which is more than the USA produces in half a decade."

To recap, in order to achieve their "net zero" fantasy, the Canadians are happily letting their wildfires burn out of control and are shamelessly pushing their carbon emissions down into the U.S. 

READ MORE: Canada's Carbon Footprint Is Massive - but It's Because of Wildfires, Not Humans (VIP)

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Can you imagine the global outcry if the positions were reversed and it was the U.S.'s poor forest management skills affecting the Canucks? The eco warriors – or what our own Ward Clark likes to call the "climate scolds" – would be hair-on-fire mad and throwing tomato soup on every Van Gogh they could find.

You'd think this would at least call for the mass dumping of maple syrup into Lake Ontario, right? Curiously, the climate zealots are quiet on this one. 

Of course, there are very real consequences for the U.S. and its citizens. Here in the D.C. area, the air quality is approaching some of the most dangerous levels we've ever seen – it's apparently worse than the 2023 invasion of Canadian irritants.

As a cold front pushed a dense plume of wildfire smoke from Canada southward, the DC area awoke Friday to widespread very unhealthy (code purple) to hazardous (code maroon) air quality. An acrid, woody/rubbery smoke smell hits as soon as you step outside.

"My eyes are burning," said a Capital Weather commenter in transit to work.

Don't let anyone claiming that this pestilence is merely a natural disaster get away with that nonsense. It's not. It's a man-made disaster, and those "men" are the Canadians.

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Of course, we Americans – the real ones, not the Canadian kind – have come up with all kinds of solutions.

And this.

If the Canadian crud clouds are hanging over your town, be sure to take the necessary precautions to stay safe and healthy. And that includes shaking your fist and possibly screaming a few choice words northward.

Be safe out there!

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