Historically the Canadian (and American) idea that forest fires should not be tolerated traces back to the idea that trees constitute a valuable resource that should be protected - so everyone "back then" (WW1 era) knew about the role of fire in forest renewal, but generally agreed that resource protection outweighed long term renewal.
Since then, however, we've kept the "fight all fires" idea, but stopped most lumbering - meaning that the forestry roads are not being built or maintained. As a result fires are harder to fight and, where "preservation" agendas have won out, both larger and hotter due to the fuel buildup.
So yes, you can blame Canada because not killing trees to sell lumber to Americans is seen as a good thing in Ottawa and Vancouver, while fighting fires to preserve the lumber resource is seen as an automatic must do in Victoria, Quebec city, Toronto and Edmonton. The one position is stupid, the other stupider, but that's Canada.
And no, you can't blame Canada because much of the U.S. behaves in nearly the same way: trying hard to kill forestry industries while fighting forest fires to protect the resource those industries would depend on if allowed to prosper.
Canada's lack of forest management...ie making it harder to get permission for controlled burns. So yes, you can blame Canada for this particular incident because their air flows down to the US and I can attest it is bad.
You got the lack of management right, but you didn’t include pine bark beetles, how trees that are growing like hair on a dog become stressed, and how pre-commercial thinning prevents massive fires that impact air and weather. Forest fires like the eruption of Krakatoa, impacts the weather for years and destroys animal life. Controlled burns are stupid, lazy and a wasteful type of “management” that takes 30 to 50 years to recover from, and no one seems to care enough in Canada to study options. In the US where some forests are private, we grow healthy forests that don’t burn.
It's been around a long while in lower intensity. I remember seeing Canadian Forest Fire smoke in the 1950s in Rocky River OH while I was hitchhiking home for Caddying at Lakewood Country Club.
Climate Change is real but as we’ve seen in the past couple decades, none of the catastrophic predictions that scientists made about it came true. Not a single one of the predictions that former Vice President Al Gore made in his garbage documentary The Inconvenient “Truth” ever came true. Guess what? All the actual science shows nonsensical the predictions of the mainstream scientific community were. The Earth is in fact, greening from all the carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuels and industrialization. The Great Barrier Reef is growing not shrinking. The Polar Ice Caps are expanding not melting. Polar Bear populations are thriving due to bans on hunting them. Climate related deaths are at all-time low. Wind and solar energy don’t work and are a waste of time. The electric car is a bad idea that should be scrapped. Nuclear energy is completely safe. AI data centers will NOT hurt the environment. We need fossil fuels and fracking. These are all indisputable facts. The left and scientists have been getting it wrong now for twenty-five years. Climate alarmism helps no one and accomplishes nothing.
The man took an Italian role made me laugh out loud 😂
These fires date back to Trudeau before thinking he’s a music video dancer 😉
Let’s not forget drones fly undetected in smoke…imagine since 1.3 million Muslims just moved in causing housing crisis there…imagine that right and some Iranian have diplomatic immunity there…
King Chuck sided with Islamic peeps as did Will when Iman embarrassed Kate and Will didn’t break his jaw so Englanistan is real no?
Add in the money 🇺🇸 took from Lloyd’s of London shipping premiums through Straight of Hormuz…how many Iranian drones are already here?
What was Bruce Willis movie coming in from Canada where he was a foreign terrorist again?
Hey Jack suggest you go back and look at a couple of other Kansas City Summers. Look at Summer 1980 June into early July. I was GM of the Cessna Dealer at MKC Downtown Airport. We had several days during that period where ramp temperatues were over 105. I remember driving across the field to the FAA Flight Service Station to look at the weather charts for myself to see if I could figure when it would end. I was looking for a Gulf Hurricane to kick the heat dome loose.
The second year is 1983 - late July into early August. I was at Fort Riley last week of July and first Week of August. It was over 106 F each of the first 10 days and 6 of those days didn't get below 90 F overnight. Fortunately that was a marathon year for me and I'd been running every day starting early in the year. I sweated so efficiently that I had salt on my BDU jacket and it was never wet. Two weeks later we did another annual training at Nickel Barracks on Salina Airport. As the S-3 I went out inspect training. My full time training officer had a brand new kit for measuring and calculating Heat Index. It does analog dry bulb, wet bulb, black bulb, and wind. Put them all into the table and look up the heat index. Combined readings took it beyond the range printed.
Now to blow up the heads of the climate crazies, that same fall and winter we had the lowest termperatures in Olathe and from KS east to Indiana, at least, that I've ever experienced. Olathe in the week before Christmas had 100 hours straight that it stayed below zero. Two days before Christmas I took the family back to Cleveland, our home until August 1979. I had a Chevy Diesel Station Wagon which I got while I was in the Aviation business and had access to JetA fuel, which i could use if winter really got bad. It was rated to -30F, while for some reason winterized #2 Diesel wasn't sold habitually below the line of US 6 runs through St Joe and across the top edge of KS. Carried spare fuel filter in the car. Had to change one on I70 at Boonville MO at -23 F. Wind made Index below -60. MO HP stopped and watched until I got moving. Only consolation was the Mercedes Diesel parked next to me at the Holidome in Terre Haute couldn't start the next morning either. Hottest and coldest same year. So much for global warning and global cooling.
Canada is trying to imitate LA. The fires have returned to LA this summer so their mayor’s race between the current marxist and the new marxist can campaign on who can better blame their legacy, capitalist system for their current predicament of empty reservoirs and drained fire hydrants.
I have no sympathy for the clueless LA residents who selected these two statist clowns running for this office, but I must confess that this is a “pass the popcorn,” moment from my current vantage point. Fafo LA. Ditto for our neighbors to the north.
As a Canadian I am very disappointed in my socialist country that is turning into a banana republic that can’t do anything right including forest management.
Hmmm. I live in Washington state near the Canadian border. We have wildfires. Some years were huge, because there is so much forest and grasslands to manage. In 2015, there were numerous fires. Counting only the large ones in my Northeast area, 1,078,396 acres or 1,685 square miles burned, with over 300 houses and structures destroyed. The whole state of Delaware is 1954 square miles. The state DNR and local volunteer fire depts. do their damndest when a fire gets started to put it out.
Canada on the other hand, to be fair, has a lot of forest and a limited budget compared even to the state of Washington. HOWEVER, I know fire fighters who have crossed the border to help and have heard furious Canadians personally tell me Canada just lets the fires burn out of control in some kind of bizarre idea they are clearing out the woods. When it gets to a town, the fires are so massive they just burn right over the top of it.
This is the first summer in a while, (so far, fingers crossed), we are not getting what the Northeast U.S. is complaining about. WE do get gorgeous sunsets and sunrises though if that is a consolation.
Climate is always changing. We have always poorly understood the real dynamics at work. More then a half a century ago, as a college debater, I recall one major college (can't recall if it was Harvard or USC) ran a global cooling case based on "experts" claiming that man made pollution, primarily particulates from fossil fuels and those dastardly cars, was refracting the warmth of the sun, demonstrably lowering the earth's temperature. This would soon result in a new ice age. Different age, different lie, same nuts!
Surrounded by wildfires here in Western Colorado but feeling very sorry for my family and friends in Cleveland. What I have seen of the skies on Facebook and the news is very depressing. I am all for blaming the climate crazies that would not let people harvest dead wood or keep the forests
Groomed. Will not bother to comment on the Hollyweirdo opinion of casting by nationality. Because he has never played a Colombian
Jack, Good story, Love the video. The smoke and stink of the Canadian woods burning has been here in Jersey since late Tuesday. Didn’t know what it was at first, thought it was local. The sky is a grainy imitation of blue and the smell is tolerable if you keep the windows closed. You can almost feel it on your skin if you’re outside. I’m just glad I don’t have to walk the cat. Just going to the Shop Rite probably would cause havoc with Asthmatic folks and heavy smokers. All causing the “climate change” issue to come up.
When are people going to realize that, yes there is climate change, BUT, there has always been climate change and there always will be until we blow ourselves up or there is some catastrophe in the solar system to accelerate it. Hell, It may have already happened eons ago but has yet to reach us. Considering the changes the Earth went through to become what we have now, Climate change is the least of our worries.
Yes, blame Canada. Our government is too busy controlling our freedom of speech and making themselves rich off bullshit zero emissions crap to actually fight the forest fires that are actually destroying the environment!!
Stay inside Jack as tomorrow it is projected to be worst. I have older relatives in Cleveland that do not have air conditioning and there are many others there with older homes that do not as it usually isn't necessary.
Umm blame Canada? Well, yes and umm, no.
Historically the Canadian (and American) idea that forest fires should not be tolerated traces back to the idea that trees constitute a valuable resource that should be protected - so everyone "back then" (WW1 era) knew about the role of fire in forest renewal, but generally agreed that resource protection outweighed long term renewal.
Since then, however, we've kept the "fight all fires" idea, but stopped most lumbering - meaning that the forestry roads are not being built or maintained. As a result fires are harder to fight and, where "preservation" agendas have won out, both larger and hotter due to the fuel buildup.
So yes, you can blame Canada because not killing trees to sell lumber to Americans is seen as a good thing in Ottawa and Vancouver, while fighting fires to preserve the lumber resource is seen as an automatic must do in Victoria, Quebec city, Toronto and Edmonton. The one position is stupid, the other stupider, but that's Canada.
And no, you can't blame Canada because much of the U.S. behaves in nearly the same way: trying hard to kill forestry industries while fighting forest fires to protect the resource those industries would depend on if allowed to prosper.
Canada's lack of forest management...ie making it harder to get permission for controlled burns. So yes, you can blame Canada for this particular incident because their air flows down to the US and I can attest it is bad.
You got the lack of management right, but you didn’t include pine bark beetles, how trees that are growing like hair on a dog become stressed, and how pre-commercial thinning prevents massive fires that impact air and weather. Forest fires like the eruption of Krakatoa, impacts the weather for years and destroys animal life. Controlled burns are stupid, lazy and a wasteful type of “management” that takes 30 to 50 years to recover from, and no one seems to care enough in Canada to study options. In the US where some forests are private, we grow healthy forests that don’t burn.
Where I live on the westridge slope of Colorado the saying is log it, graze it or watch it burn
Smoke - Chinada's biggest export.
Is Chinada a sister country with L.A.? Or is it Cuba?
It's been around a long while in lower intensity. I remember seeing Canadian Forest Fire smoke in the 1950s in Rocky River OH while I was hitchhiking home for Caddying at Lakewood Country Club.
My people call that Multigenerational Stolen Air.
Definitely California!
Climate Change is real but as we’ve seen in the past couple decades, none of the catastrophic predictions that scientists made about it came true. Not a single one of the predictions that former Vice President Al Gore made in his garbage documentary The Inconvenient “Truth” ever came true. Guess what? All the actual science shows nonsensical the predictions of the mainstream scientific community were. The Earth is in fact, greening from all the carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuels and industrialization. The Great Barrier Reef is growing not shrinking. The Polar Ice Caps are expanding not melting. Polar Bear populations are thriving due to bans on hunting them. Climate related deaths are at all-time low. Wind and solar energy don’t work and are a waste of time. The electric car is a bad idea that should be scrapped. Nuclear energy is completely safe. AI data centers will NOT hurt the environment. We need fossil fuels and fracking. These are all indisputable facts. The left and scientists have been getting it wrong now for twenty-five years. Climate alarmism helps no one and accomplishes nothing.
The man took an Italian role made me laugh out loud 😂
These fires date back to Trudeau before thinking he’s a music video dancer 😉
Let’s not forget drones fly undetected in smoke…imagine since 1.3 million Muslims just moved in causing housing crisis there…imagine that right and some Iranian have diplomatic immunity there…
King Chuck sided with Islamic peeps as did Will when Iman embarrassed Kate and Will didn’t break his jaw so Englanistan is real no?
Add in the money 🇺🇸 took from Lloyd’s of London shipping premiums through Straight of Hormuz…how many Iranian drones are already here?
What was Bruce Willis movie coming in from Canada where he was a foreign terrorist again?
The Jackal 1997
Have a Blessed Day now y’all
Hey Jack suggest you go back and look at a couple of other Kansas City Summers. Look at Summer 1980 June into early July. I was GM of the Cessna Dealer at MKC Downtown Airport. We had several days during that period where ramp temperatues were over 105. I remember driving across the field to the FAA Flight Service Station to look at the weather charts for myself to see if I could figure when it would end. I was looking for a Gulf Hurricane to kick the heat dome loose.
The second year is 1983 - late July into early August. I was at Fort Riley last week of July and first Week of August. It was over 106 F each of the first 10 days and 6 of those days didn't get below 90 F overnight. Fortunately that was a marathon year for me and I'd been running every day starting early in the year. I sweated so efficiently that I had salt on my BDU jacket and it was never wet. Two weeks later we did another annual training at Nickel Barracks on Salina Airport. As the S-3 I went out inspect training. My full time training officer had a brand new kit for measuring and calculating Heat Index. It does analog dry bulb, wet bulb, black bulb, and wind. Put them all into the table and look up the heat index. Combined readings took it beyond the range printed.
Now to blow up the heads of the climate crazies, that same fall and winter we had the lowest termperatures in Olathe and from KS east to Indiana, at least, that I've ever experienced. Olathe in the week before Christmas had 100 hours straight that it stayed below zero. Two days before Christmas I took the family back to Cleveland, our home until August 1979. I had a Chevy Diesel Station Wagon which I got while I was in the Aviation business and had access to JetA fuel, which i could use if winter really got bad. It was rated to -30F, while for some reason winterized #2 Diesel wasn't sold habitually below the line of US 6 runs through St Joe and across the top edge of KS. Carried spare fuel filter in the car. Had to change one on I70 at Boonville MO at -23 F. Wind made Index below -60. MO HP stopped and watched until I got moving. Only consolation was the Mercedes Diesel parked next to me at the Holidome in Terre Haute couldn't start the next morning either. Hottest and coldest same year. So much for global warning and global cooling.
Canada is trying to imitate LA. The fires have returned to LA this summer so their mayor’s race between the current marxist and the new marxist can campaign on who can better blame their legacy, capitalist system for their current predicament of empty reservoirs and drained fire hydrants.
I have no sympathy for the clueless LA residents who selected these two statist clowns running for this office, but I must confess that this is a “pass the popcorn,” moment from my current vantage point. Fafo LA. Ditto for our neighbors to the north.
As a Canadian I am very disappointed in my socialist country that is turning into a banana republic that can’t do anything right including forest management.
Hmmm. I live in Washington state near the Canadian border. We have wildfires. Some years were huge, because there is so much forest and grasslands to manage. In 2015, there were numerous fires. Counting only the large ones in my Northeast area, 1,078,396 acres or 1,685 square miles burned, with over 300 houses and structures destroyed. The whole state of Delaware is 1954 square miles. The state DNR and local volunteer fire depts. do their damndest when a fire gets started to put it out.
Canada on the other hand, to be fair, has a lot of forest and a limited budget compared even to the state of Washington. HOWEVER, I know fire fighters who have crossed the border to help and have heard furious Canadians personally tell me Canada just lets the fires burn out of control in some kind of bizarre idea they are clearing out the woods. When it gets to a town, the fires are so massive they just burn right over the top of it.
This is the first summer in a while, (so far, fingers crossed), we are not getting what the Northeast U.S. is complaining about. WE do get gorgeous sunsets and sunrises though if that is a consolation.
Climate is always changing. We have always poorly understood the real dynamics at work. More then a half a century ago, as a college debater, I recall one major college (can't recall if it was Harvard or USC) ran a global cooling case based on "experts" claiming that man made pollution, primarily particulates from fossil fuels and those dastardly cars, was refracting the warmth of the sun, demonstrably lowering the earth's temperature. This would soon result in a new ice age. Different age, different lie, same nuts!
Totally!
Surrounded by wildfires here in Western Colorado but feeling very sorry for my family and friends in Cleveland. What I have seen of the skies on Facebook and the news is very depressing. I am all for blaming the climate crazies that would not let people harvest dead wood or keep the forests
Groomed. Will not bother to comment on the Hollyweirdo opinion of casting by nationality. Because he has never played a Colombian
I love Sid the Sloth!
Also, what caused global climate change during the ice ages, and between them, back when there were no white folks to blame?
We need to go to Greenland to make a sneak attack on Canada to get all these fires under control.
Please do!!
Maybe some Canadian lunatic blue haired women should slap around some little girls to stop climate change.
Jack, Good story, Love the video. The smoke and stink of the Canadian woods burning has been here in Jersey since late Tuesday. Didn’t know what it was at first, thought it was local. The sky is a grainy imitation of blue and the smell is tolerable if you keep the windows closed. You can almost feel it on your skin if you’re outside. I’m just glad I don’t have to walk the cat. Just going to the Shop Rite probably would cause havoc with Asthmatic folks and heavy smokers. All causing the “climate change” issue to come up.
When are people going to realize that, yes there is climate change, BUT, there has always been climate change and there always will be until we blow ourselves up or there is some catastrophe in the solar system to accelerate it. Hell, It may have already happened eons ago but has yet to reach us. Considering the changes the Earth went through to become what we have now, Climate change is the least of our worries.
Didn’t know you were a South Park fan
Yes, blame Canada. Our government is too busy controlling our freedom of speech and making themselves rich off bullshit zero emissions crap to actually fight the forest fires that are actually destroying the environment!!
Stay inside Jack as tomorrow it is projected to be worst. I have older relatives in Cleveland that do not have air conditioning and there are many others there with older homes that do not as it usually isn't necessary.
I remember when instead of “ guido” we called them Nicky Newarks. If you know you know.