More than 120 million people across the U.S. — over 1/3 of the country’s population — were living under air quality alerts as of late Wednesday as smoke from hundreds of out-of-control Canadian wildfires blanketed much of the Northeast and the Midwest.
“This is what we’ve been warning about… more extreme heat linked to the climate crisis,” the youth-led“We need to declare a climate emergency,” the group added, reiterating a longstanding demand that President Joe Biden has thus far rejected.on social media that “dangerous heat persists for much of the southern U.S.,” where tens of millions of people are living under heat advisories.
“Heat is the leading cause of weather-related fatalities each year,” the agency stressed. “Take it seriously.”that “much of the United States felt like a blazing inferno on Wednesday, as record heat attacked the South like a blowtorch, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the Great Lakes region, and triple-digit temperatures threatened to wallop California for the first time this year.”
“Scientists said climate change helped shape the weather conditions that were causing misery and putting lives at risk from Mexico to Canada,” theLead headline tonite on the Washington Post–and for much of the rest of the century
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