Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada. Here’s why they aren’t being put out

Channel 3000 News/CNN ^ | July 2, 2023 | CNN Staff

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Another wave of wildfire smoke has drifted into the US, dimming blue summer skies and igniting troubling concerns regarding the increasing frequency of fires, and what they have to do with climate change.

More than 100 million people are under air quality alerts from Wisconsin to Vermont and down to North Carolina as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to waft south, though conditions are expected to improve slowly into the holiday weekend.

Air quality on both sides of the border has been affected as more than 500 active wildfires raging across Canada. Some fires are so out of control officials have no choice but to leave them burn.

Meanwhile, at least 10 countries have deployed their own firefighters to assist Canada with putting out the ones threatening communities whose residents have scrambled to evacuate.

Scientists continue to reiterate warnings the effects of climate change have arrived, emphasizing wildfires and the plumes of toxic smoke generated by them will become more frequent.

As plumes of smoke billow out of Canada’s forests, some may be wondering why many of the fires are being allowed to burn unchecked.

*SNIP*

Here’s why:

Some of the fires are in extremely remote areas

There are not enough resources to fight all the fires

Not enough prevention tactics to decrease the number of fires

The ecosystem depends on fires, and climate change is making them worse

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Diana here: SW Wisconsin (ALL of WI!) has just endured about 5 days of the smoke/haze. It has rained now, so that has cleared things up, but whereas you can usually see for MILES in any direction from my front porch, all we could see were outlines of trees and silos, etc. Blood-red Sunrises, Sunsets and the Moon. I can't imagine what it's been like in the heart of this mess!

[rlmorel]

Here is what it looks like in Vermont:

Definitely not normal!

[Tennessee Nana]

Blood turned to blood ???

Hmmmmmmmmm

[albie]

“Climate change is making it worse”?! No. Lack of forest management is making it worse.

[No name given]

Exactly!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yep. It was very similar here, though even darker in the distance. :(

Our local ‘landmark’ is Blue Mound - she ‘disappeared’ for a few days!

[Track9]

Hey.. it’s ‘blocking the sun’.

[Samurai_Jack]

so, instead of allocating resources to maintain the ecosystem with controlled burns and cleaning out the dead underbrush of flammable pine needles. They let a forest fire get out of control and emit enough carbons into the air to turn the sun blood red and code red atmosphere conditions across the entire east coast of the united states and down to the Caribbean.

Meanwhile they direct literally... and I do mean literally... TRILLIONS of US Taxpayer dollars into ‘green energy’ boondoggles to prevent emissions of carbons from clean fossil fuel power.

And then they wonder why people squirrel up to these conspiracy theories. It’s because todays conspiracy theory is pretty consistent in becoming tomorrows news headline.

[Sirius Lee]

Definitely not normal!

Yes, your squash should be a lot farther along.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yep. They have to tie it to ‘climate change’ at every opportunity, versus the REAL causes of these man-made disasters.

I thought every good Canadian owned an axe? Get busy up there, People! ;)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It’s been smelly and hazy here in Gaithersburg, MD for two different episodes so far. I can’t wait to get back to Florida. At least a hurricane won’t have me smoking 3 packs a day.

[gitmo]

The ecosystem depends on fires, and climate change is making them worse.

So "Climate Change" is helping a fire-maintained ecosystem and that is worse?

[Bernard]

It's raining here in northern Illinois as well - finally. A lack of rain over the last few weeks is another reason why the haze has lasted so long this year.

I'm waiting to hear about the Biden Administration proposing to build a haze wall across our northern border, to go along with the Pacific Railroad and the "Block The Sun" idea that just came out.

Even Wily Coyote only used normal things. These guys have too much imagination.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL!

A friend posted the other day that he’s, ‘smoked three packs of Canadian Wildfires’ this week!

[rey]

This is hilarious. Wildland fire is the ONLY natural disaster people expect man to stop. In reality, you can protect some property, limit damage, but you essentially wait for weather and conditions to change.

You are talking about mega billions if not trillions of BTUs. Your average fire engine has about 35,000 BTUs of water. Your average house fire (not fully engulfed) is about 130,000 BTUs.

You are not putting wildland fires out anymore than you are stopping a hurricane or flood. Like any other disaster, it dies out.

[butlerweave]

Trudeau just hit Canadians with a big carbon tax so that should fix everything ,LOL

[Qiviut]

Where we turn out on the main highway, that intersection is elevated so there’s a long view into the distance. Thursday, looking down the road from there, it was gray haze (looked like heavy fog) in the distance. At the farm, there was a visible haze hanging low along the treeline at the edge of the fields. Mowing that evening, the back of my throat felt a little ‘burney’ and I had to cough a few times. The air quality was definitely bad ... code ‘red’ I believe, dangerous for those with asthma, lung & heart conditions.

When the smoke haze is high, it’s not too bad, but the low stuff you can smell is awful.

[Leep]

Trumps no longer in charge and they really can’t blame racism..so,what’s left..global warming...i mean climate change.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ Definitely not normal! ”

Yes something is off.
I don’t see any tomatoes?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

But you can manage the forests so the fires won’t be as severe. The environ-MENTAL-ists won’t allow that.