Canadian Wildfires
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Topic: Canadian Wildfires
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Subject: Canadian Wildfires
Date Posted: July 27 2024 at 05:08
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8 weeks today my wife and I should be staying in Jasper as part of our once-in-a-lifetime fly drive through the Rockies. As far as I can tell our hotel is still standing, but 40% of buildings are gone and it’s not over☹️ My thoughts go out to all those currently affected 😢 ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: July 27 2024 at 05:43
A symbol of hope. Taken as I drove into Jasper in 2007. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: July 27 2024 at 06:26
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Wow, that’s beautiful! Where are you based in Canada JD? ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: July 27 2024 at 12:12
------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
JD wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 27 2024 at 14:49
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It has become every year that we have terrible raging fires, and we
often are clogged by smoke out here on the West Coast. That said, this
is so sad as Jasper is such a beautiful and historic town and a
breathtaking area and I care deeply about nature and green initiatives.
It can feel like the world is on fire. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 27 2024 at 15:50
| ^It's climate change. The weather is more violent and destructive every year due to humans. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 27 2024 at 16:11
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^ Yep, wildfires keep increasing in number and virulence yearly. What hath the hand of man wrought. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: September 15 2024 at 10:39
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So we’ll be staying in Revelstoke instead of Jasper, but still driving the Icefields Parkway to the Columbia Icefields adventure, before turning round, driving back as far as Lake Louise and then heading off on the other highway…. And only today did we hear about the potential Air Canada strike/shutdown, after it was averted at the last minute!!! Our travel company had not messaged us about it so not sure what would have happened if it was going ahead (we fly on Wednesday 😎) ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: September 15 2024 at 13:13
| I think arson is another reason that there are so many fires. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: September 16 2024 at 03:42
What type of evidence do you base this claim on?
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 16 2024 at 04:05
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^^^ Mike, please don't start a Global-warming denial highjack ================== We've been impacted across the pond with smokes reaching some parts of Europe
Unless there are pyromaniacs (which is of course more than a possibility), arson fire are often started in regions where there is land speculations (real estate or mining value). Not sure it is the case in most of the Canadian Shield. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: September 16 2024 at 04:17
Sure, Arson for profit. However, many arsonists set fires for pleasure. It's a sad fact. My husband is a professional firefighter. A few years ago, he showed me a sped-up satellite image of Canada. Over 20 fires became visible within 24 hours. The fires occurred over a huge swath of Canada. That doesn't prove arson, but it certainly suggests arson. Sure, Mother Nature could have been responsible for some of the fires...but all of them? |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 16 2024 at 04:38
It is a definite possibility, indeed. Most of them are definitely human-started, but maybe not intentionally so. Even a splinter/shard of glass present/abandoned for a decade can act as a magnifying glass on a very dried out forest ground and a scorching sun. ================= I lived in Canada 20 years (Toronto & Montreal) from 70 to 90 (age 7 to 27), so I naturally went "up-North" - cottage country in both provinces,but also sometimes going further 'Up-North" than vacation lands. I'm speaking of Churchill/Moosonee on the Hudson/James Bay and the Grande River dams (Hydro-Quebec), and believe men there is little human demographic pressures up there, but its activities can be quite destructive for the environment. Where lumber-jacking on the Canadian Shield is +/- the only activity (let's face it, it's not the lumber-jacking firms that want these forest fires). Of course, behind the forest industry is the mining industry (which are much less "angelic") but these Pre-Cambrian soils are not very interesting in terms of ores. Now of course, the Okanagan valley out west (between the two chains of mountains) is a very different story. .
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: September 16 2024 at 05:14
For the record, I merely responded to what could be called a "global-warming activism highjack".  In all seriousness, I'm interested in the reasoning here. Is there evidence that the rate/severity of these wildfires tracks with CO2 emissions? Or is it due to increased reporting that we perceive an increase? Do we react differently to them? Did we change our strategies to combat them? Is it a combination of everything? |