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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Thursday, two weeks ago the jet stream evidently moved waaaay down and here in SW Montana it was very smoky for four days.
I looked on an app called MyRadar (it has a wild fire layer that you can activate) and man-o-man! Canada has a bunch of wild fires!
Leave it to the politicians to blame anyone but themselves for poor forest management...
“Funny how that fire seemed to start in many locations at the same time”
Energy directed weapons just like in California.
Stupid Gang Green members and the politicians who support this anti-human garbage should be tied to trees along the approaching firelines.
Combo of smoke, smog, and sun????
All the private forestry/lumber companies employee people to go up after thunder storms and spot fires caused by lightning strikes. Then they deploy firefighters to go out and put the fire out BEFORE is spreads.
When the same thunder storms hit National Forest lands or BLM lands the first thing they do is have a meeting. Then if it was a “natural” lightning strike as opposed to arson they then decide whether to put the fire out or let it burn.
In most cases this turns a 10-100 acre burn into thousands of acres.
This is the difference in philosophy in the government vs. private timber owners. To private timber companies that fire is going to directly affect their profit/bottom line. Trees/timber to them are a resource that they are going to turn into profit. It directly affects their profitability.
The government does not care because their employees are going to get paid.
On a tangent:
Why was none of this Canada wildfire/Midwest-East Coast downwind effect put as “breaking news” (at least when it first came out)?
On my soapbox about “breaking news”. This was something that could’ve been breaking, when it really WAS breaking (i.e., being reported, and important). Meanwhile we keep having stuff that is nothing more than an update or just plain news on that margin.
sigh.
I like the name.
Of course, most people would probably have no idea these days what that is.
You raise a good point. If the wind currents were pushing all that smoke north towards the arctic circle, nobody would care.
They all seem to forget that for as long as there have been forests and lightning strikes, there have been wildfires. Man’s attempts to STOP this, is just denying nature the opportunity to clean up the way things have been happening forever, and making things worse when it eventually DOES happen.
sat-imagery showed they ALL started at the SAME EXACT TIME...
The larger question IS NOT how the fire started. There always have been forest fires, and always will be.
The larger question is why weren’t measures in place (maintaining firebreaks, limiting accumulation of undergrowth, etc) to limit their scale.
Trudeau
The cause of wildfires is the absence of controlled burns.
Imagine what terrorists could do with forest fires and the water supply.
“Imagine what terrorists could do with forest fires and the water supply.”
Well, we know what they can do with the water supply...
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/06/1180410100/ukraine-dam-collapse-kakhovka-nuclear-zaporizhzhia
I take it you have never been to Canada. Something like 90% of the people in Canada live within 90 miles of the US border. There is simply no or little infrastructure available to fight fires out of that zone..
duhhhhhhhhhhhh... yeah that sounds logical
Just like all the lakes that surround california stopped the fires at its borders
That was my first thought, after reading headline. So, Blackface Hitler wants to be Newscum.
Not in remote parts of Canada. There is simply no way to do it.
Good point. The fires will destroy a lot of trees that would have been made into building material. Takes a lot of supply out of the market.
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