[News] Canadian wildfires

[LamieRobertson]

Let’s everyone now shut the f*** up and get back on topic eh.

The wildfires are proper shit, and California is going through another really hard spell right now too. And we’ve got all of August to get through yet.

A couple of my photos/videos from my place in August last year.

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that’s one scary photo

 

[Zeberdi]

As jc mentioned, very few forest fires here in Canada are started by people -- it's nearly always lightning strikes. But climate warming has made trees drier than they should be, and we have SO much more woodland than anywhere else in the world except Russia. Even with a population of 40 million and enough wealth to buy all the planes and equipment needed to fight these tragedies, there's just too much area to cover in the short time span it takes wildfires to spread like an epidemic.

BTW, for those angry at Trudeau fils, the GQP-light Tories would be doing less than nothing. A bit of strategic voting to increase the number of NPD seats in the next House so that a true centre-left coalition government can be formed wirh the weakened Liberals would go a long way to pushing and implementing more forceful, and enforceable, climate strategies in this country.

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Sensible post.

That’s the worrying aspect of all this in drier parts of the planet that have extensive regions of forest or bush - it reaches a point where it is impossible to halt the spread because of the sheer magnitude of the problem - only natural firebreaks/water features/rain are the only limiting factors. Siberia, Russia, Australian bush and the Arctic along with Canada, pumping carbons into the air from forest fires, adding to the cycle of climate warming.

 

[Goldstone Guy]

This is libel and I suggest you retract it immediately.

I asked for evidence not threats. To make it clear, I didn’t mean to compare you to an NRA supporter, but am comparing your phrase (thoughts and prayers) to what NRA/firearms supporters in USA are said to often say after high school shootings.

I’ve obviously upset you with my comments (which I know are inflammatory but I believe need to be said) and I’m sure nobody else wants to see these kinds of threads descend into a 1 vs 1 argument, so apologies everyone for that. This isn’t doing me much good either, so I’ll leave it there, step away and no more posts from me. Oh shit, I believe that’s known as a flounce Have a good day, I honestly mean that.

 

[Quebec Seagull]

THE GUARDIAN -- Canadian wildfires made at least 3 times more likely by climate crisis and emitted about 2bn tonnes of CO2 in 2023, data reveals

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