Turns out climate change exists 🤷♀️
Its worst wildfire season of the 21st century so far.
20 years from now … 2023 will be seen as the best year for wild fires
In the region maybe for sure. A few years ago it was same for california/Oregon west coast.
It’s been 22 years since Canada’s boreal forest has been a carbon sink (due to various gov’ts forest management failures and the impacts of climate change) and we are well past the point of being able to fix this. :/
77 more years to go!
We need more funding and action to prevent this for sure. Climate change isn’t going anywhere anytime soon so this will become more and more the norm.
I’m going camping this weekend and it’s gonna suck not being able to have a fire.
The frog sitting in boiling water analogy
The water’s getting warm everyone … don’t worry, we’ll be ok … ribbit
it’s gonna suck not being able to have a fire.
If we act now, you’ll be able to have that fire in 20 years. But we’re not doing it for our campfires. We’re doing it because we know old people go hungry first and I want there to be enough food by the time I’m old so I still get some.
And this is how the climate change costs keep mounting.
I guess “worst wildfire season in 23 years” doesn’t have the same ring to it?
My dad said the quebec fire was started by someone tweeting to collect insurance on burning a a car or piece of farm equipment and the blaze got out of control, you heard anything like that?
There’s not just a single fire. There were over 130 in Quebec alone as of two days ago, most of which were started by lightning strikes.
I think the problem is the undergrowth, Canada is very sparsely populated so it’s not like they’re really clearing out the forest so to say, that way, when lightning does strike has plenty of kindling to keep the fires is going
The bigger problem is the hotter and dryer conditions.
Yes, that’s definitely a part of it. We’ve neglected to do controlled spreads of fire to limit these wildfires from being as devastating to the local ecosystems as they are. We’re also just getting off a particularly dry spring for the provinces, so that kindling’s ready to burn. This of course is accelerated and worsened by climate change. CBC has a whole article about the changing of our wildfires as its impacted by climate change. It’s a good read and I’d encourage you to check it out.
Good article, i think controlled burns are the answer, the question is, will the government actually do it or will they just sit on their hands and collect their pay checks per usual
My dad said the quebec fire was started by someone tweeting to collect insurance on burning a a car or piece of farm equipment and the blaze got out of control, you heard anything like that?
Only from climate change denying conspiracy nutbags.
After reading your comment i was intrigued and found this on the subject, basically woman in Alberta charged with 32 counts of arson after wildfire investigation. I will link story below https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6053436
Misinformation
That story has been featured in a lot of sources to back claims like yours.
Press Progress did a feature on it recently.
Didn’t you notice the date of the article you’re citing?
It’s from 2021 … two years ago and has nothing to do with the current forest fire season
