Posted on 06/08/2023 1:59:03 AM PDT by Libloather
Wildfires raging across six of Canada's 13 provinces and territories have caused havoc nationwide for the last six weeks - forcing mass evacuations and burning through more than 3.3 million hectares of land, larger than the state of Maryland.
With the smoke now billowing down to the East Coast of the United States, affecting 75 million Americans, the dire threat to Canada's forests has come into sharp focus.
Some blame lax forest management, arguing that not enough controlled burns are being carried out thanks to campaigns by environmentalists.
In 2020, four scientists wrote a paper published in Progress in Disaster Science in which they said not enough money was being spent by Canada on managing forests.
'Wildfire management agencies in Canada are at a tipping point,' they wrote. 'Presuppression and suppression costs are increasing but program budgets are not.'
In July 2021, the editorial board of Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper warned that more needed to be done to hold controlled burns, and reduce the problem of out-of-control wildfires.
But others say that climate change is directly responsible, due to the warming planet.
Canada had an extremely dry and snow-free winter, which has left all 10 provinces currently facing conditions termed abnormal dryness, moderate or severe drought, according to the Canadian government's drought tracker.
In June 2021, Canada experienced its hottest day ever when the town of Lytton, in British Columbia, hit 121 degrees Fahrenheit, smashing the previous record of 113 degrees.
It tied California's Death Valley as the hottest place in North America that day. And this year, the wildfire season has begun incredibly early.
More than 1,400 percent of the normal amount of acres has burned for this time of the year - 8.7 million acres so far in 2023, an area the size of Vermont.
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Bad forestry management.
Deliberate burnings to clear trees and to give native firefighter jobs.
Terrorism.
All three are happening.
So Canada under Trudeau is now basically California under Newsom.
Gotcha.
funny how that fire seemed to start in many locations at the same time.
Also seemed to stop at the province borders.
Just like the fires in California
I saw a blurb on a social media site claiming that someone confessed to arson in at least one fire but the link was to a blog site.
IIRC a few years back a number California fires were arson.
What happened to the “Smoke Jumpers” who would parachute in to stop fires in the earlist stages?
stupid greenie tree hugging policies resulted in forests that haven’t seen a rake in more than five decades. Now they’re layered with highly flammable pine needles and dry brush. What did they think was going to happen. How about employ some of those illegal aliens clearing out their precious forests of kindling and accelerants.
No, that makes too much sense. Why would they do anything useful about a problem that they caused.
Blame Canada??? Now where did I hear that before...
Lumber prices - up up up.
“Canada; our mortal enemy.”
/MST3K
Lets just say God still punishes nations. What might be some way which God might try to suggest Canada is going down the wrong path? This is a lot more likely theory than global warming
The Canadians voted for socialism, corruption, poverty, squalor and destruction -and they got it.
Screwing up Canada isn’t good enough for Trudeau. He’s now covering the US with that smelly smoke.
Just like California! Planned
Add in a long dry spell (same occurring in Germany at present).
That is courtesy of voters in Toronto and Montreal and the Maritimes and even my backyard. Specifically the university educated women who are teachers or professors or instructors or civil servants (clerical and managerial). He’s viewed as an idiot by the rest of us.
Yeah, well you don’t have to remind me of this. It currently looks like the third day of the battle of Gettysburg outside my house.
CC
Well as the border between Quebec, Ontario and the US is 4 of the 5 great lakes it is perhaps unsuprising the fire didn’t cross the border.
CC
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