Fox News host Jesse Watters says it’s “normal” for the Northeastern United States to be engulfed in smoke from Canadian wildfires
Watters: “This is not some extreme hot winds that has taken over Canada. This is a normal Canadian June”
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Citation From the June 8, 2023, edition of Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): So if you want some statistics, from 1706 to 1910, there have been 20 so-called dark days, or yellow days, where the average people -- they don't have TV back then -- go out and then at noon, it's dark or it's yellow. And these are phenomena that have happened over the last 200 years, well before the automobile.
So this is normal and what they're doing is they're preying on ignorance. Not everybody knows that burning forests from Canada has blacked out North America dozens and dozens of times over the last 300 years. They're banking on people not knowing that.
I talked to my meteorological sources. And they said that there are normal temperatures in Canada, normal precipitation in Canada. There has been ordinary weather in May in Canada. This is not some extreme hot winds that has taken over Canada. This is a normal Canadian June that, because of lightning strikes and campers that put out their Camels in a dry bed of poorly managed forests, that's what's happening. And so Joe Biden's taking advantage of this to push the Green New Deal so people like his donors can get paid and not people like ExxonMobil that usually donate to Republicans.