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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Mostly, a change in the weather. To assume forest management can control the current fire problem is folly.
Forests are being managed by Mother Nature, in the long term. Her management schedule does not fit the 90 day management expectations of humans who believe they are in control
New England’s “Dark Day.” May 19, 1780
The History Guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPQz9FpdOrw
Please do not think that this phenomenon hasn’t happened before.
There are two crews of smokejumpers in British Columbia, and that’s it for all of Canada. Only so much they can do.
Who is John Galt?
I want my reparations from Canada for bad air quality.
“He’s viewed as an idiot by the rest of us.”
Conservatives try to be nice—and in doing so confuse stupidity with evil.
Trudeau is raw evil.
Their forests are being “managed” by the same brand of ignorant government crap weasels as the ones “managing” our government lands. Privately held forestlands in the US largely don’t have these problems.
They started at the same time. Looks like on purpose.
The politicians wanted this to happen so they could blame it all on “climate change” and eliminate gas-powered cars.
Bill Gates and co. are probably also operating a big virtual fan in the sky to direct the smoke down here.
The fires are across Canada from east to west- Vancouver to Nova Scotia. Over 8 million acres have burned.
I thought it was caused by climate change. Here in Western NC beautiful clear skys. No sign of smoke. Far from Canada and the sh*thol* that is northern US.
Regular changes to Solar cycles, weather modification, the solar system has moved out of the protective local cloud into the local void at the same time it moved above the galactic plane resulting in exposure to more gamma radiation! (Maybe massive CO2 emissions associated with dyes and printing of Rainbow colored clothing and accessories for the LickGoodBetweenToes movement. Definitely this!)
Climate does change. There are regular changes associated with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession 26 thousand year cycles
https://www.thoughtco.com/clouds-in-space-3073644 (Our local galactic cloud!)
"Earth and the other planets are relatively protected from the magnetic fields and radiation in the Local Interstellar Cloud by the Sun's heliosphere — the extent of the solar wind. It extends well out beyond the orbit of dwarf planet Pluto. Data from the Voyager 1 spacecraft have confirmed the existence of the Local Fluff by detecting the strong magnetic fields it contains. Another probe, called IBEX, has also studied the interaction between the solar wind and the Local Fluff, in an effort to map the region of space that acts as a boundary between the heliosphere and the Local Fluff.
In the long run, the path the solar system follows through these clouds could protect the Sun and planets from higher rates of radiation in the galaxy. As the solar system travels through the galaxy during its 220-million-year orbit, it's likely to move in and out of clouds, with interesting implications for the future of life on our planet. "
Then there are direct man made interventions; Chinese Weather Modificartion
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/12/09/china-is-now-controlling-the-weather-what-s-the-environmental-cost
And of course environmental arson by people or groups unknown.
A bit tongue in cheek, a bit about other not generally recognized influences.
Well, we will also agree with evil as part of that assessment. After all, it was quite early in the morning when I wrote my comment, so maybe a term like evil might not immediately entered my mind at that time.
Long time ago, when I was young, I helped doing just that. It worked every time!
Watching Todays weather moron blaming climate change for Canada’s fires. When is NBC going to fire this guy and get truthful reporting.
Recommend going back and reading Post 39 by grundle, including the article at the link.
"On the left side, the earth is black as tar, and scorch marks as tall as a person scar the trunks of the mature oak trees scattered throughout the field. But on the right side, the ground is tan and brown, and you have to look hard at the still-green oaks to see any evidence of the fire that raged through here just a few weeks before. It’s no mystery to Berleman why the fire behaved so differently on the two sides of the trail... When flames hit the field on the left of the path, they met a dense wall of thigh-high grass that hadn’t been mowed, grazed or burned for 20 years. The flames must have been 5 or 6 feet tall. On the right side, however, Berleman had set a prescribed burn just this spring. So when the October wildfire hit, patches of fire blazed, but with so little fuel, the flames remained only inches high."
Uh...undergrowth and fire?
...mass media blaming climate change for Canada’s fires...
They really blew it—this was their chance to blame white people!
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