Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair announced Monday that Canada is experiencing its worst wildfire season of the 21st century, with more than 47,000 square kilometres burned so far this year.
    • Keldor@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      In the region maybe for sure. A few years ago it was same for california/Oregon west coast.

    • girlfreddy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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. :/

  • Durango807@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The frog sitting in boiling water analogy

      The water’s getting warm everyone … don’t worry, we’ll be ok … ribbit

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • ram@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

        • ram@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.