Lionel Shriver Lionel Shriver

The weather isn’t ‘climate change’

The Chrysler Building in the haze from Canadian wildfires, 7 June 2023 (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images) 
issue 17 June 2023

I was in New York while the smoke from Canadian wildfires filtered over the city for three days last week, and I took a guilty pleasure in the aesthetic thrill. Midday, the light assumed the roseate hue of sunset. A cloudless sky appeared overcast, and the ghostly sun was so occluded one could look straight at it.

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