Are the Canadian fires an act of eco-terrorism? Satellite video circulating on Twitter shows fires beginning almost simultaneously

With fires raging in Canada and blanketing America’s northeast in thick orange smoke, leftists are again beating the “climate change” drum. Saner minds point to Justin Trudeau’s refusal to practice good forest management. But what if it’s neither of those things? It turns out that there’s compelling evidence suggesting that eco-terrorists set the fires to corral weary Westerners back into a climate change panic—and it won’t be the first time that’s happened.

It was inevitable, once the fires started raging, that the leftists would raise the specter of climate change. Justin Trudeau insisted climate change was the culprit and again demanded a carbon tax to save the world. Bloomberg announced that “Canada’s Wildfires Expose the Climate Change ‘Spiral of Silence.’” The BBC asked rhetorically, “Is climate change fuelling Canada’s wildfires?” ABC announced as fact, “How Canada’s wildfires and air quality warnings are connected to climate change.”

Image: Fire in Canada. YouTube screen grab.

When you’ve got an unfalsifiable theory like climate change, which is all faith and no science, you’d expect leftists to tread the same path. But what if that’s not what’s happening at all? What if we’re witnessing arson on a massive, destructive scale to drive the narrative?

Elizabeth Nickson has examined the evidence suggesting eco-terrorist arson, and there’s a good case. Nickson opens by pointing to a satellite video circulating on Twitter showing the fires beginning almost simultaneously, at just the right time for the winds to take the smoke south:

Satellite images from the College of DuPage Meteorology Department show that—on the 2nd of June—the fires that erupted in Quebec, Canada, all started at the exact same time.

Source: https://t.co/dQ7iK0amyq

It wouldn’t surprise me if it was arson. Especially in eastern Canada.

What does surprise me, a little, is that there are far more and far bigger fires in western Canada that started more than a month before the eastern fires. At least one of them has topped a million acres now.

But I saw a chart on somebody’s podcast which showed a steady decline in Canadian forest fires since the early ‘90s so the only thing new here is that NYC and DC had to eat some smoke this year due to the different profile of the jet streams which is being caused by a strong El Nino.

Welcome to the party, East Coasters! We’ve been eating smoke out west every summer for the last few years for weeks and months at a time.

Any idea of a date and time stamp for that sequence?

It occurs during clear skies and northeast winds, not likely to be lightning. And it looks suspiciously like the road network in central Quebec (which is not very extensive).

In western Canada we know that some fires have been started by arson, somebody was convicted of starting 54 fires in Alberta in 2021. And the 2016 Fort Mac fire started from a remote campsite 20 miles west of the city, and there was no lightning involved.

Other human causes beside deliberate arson include flicking butts out of a car window, campfires not entirely extinguished, train sparks jumping into forests, cars parked on dry grass in hot weather ... and the practice of not clearing hydro-electric transmission corridors of trees.

One assumption in this discussion is somewhat misplaced. In Canada forestry is largely a provincial responsibility. There are no “national forests” and there is little federal government involvement in forestry. It’s a big portfolio for provincial governments. They co-ordinate all aspects of fighting fires in Canada. The feds step in to score political points sometimes but their actual role is negligible.

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