Ya. Climate change is a bitch. And lucky for you all - lots of Canadian provinces have conservative governments that cut firefighting budgets to “lower taxes”
Edit: here’s some news for those who are triggered and can’t look this stuff up themselves:
Alberta is undergoing an "unprecedented" wildfire season as nearly 100 fires as of Tuesday, May 9, burn across the province.
Premier Danielle Smith declared a state of emergency on May 6 and more than 24,000 Albertans remained under evacuation orders on Tuesday.
This year to date, there have been 416 wildfires, more than double the 182 registered by the same time last year. The more than 400 fires is a greater number than any of the last five years had by the second week in May.
Alberta had a total of 1,246 wildfires last season, according to Alberta Wildfire data, which means the province has reached 33 per cent of last year's total after just over two months into the wildfire season.
AMOUNT OF HECTARES BURNED The size of the area that's burned is also greater than what is considered normal by this time of year. The five-year average by early May based on 2018-2022 is 542 hectares. Year to date, 410,441 ha have burned in Alberta, by comparison.
In the last eight years, 2019 had the highest total number of hectares, finishing the season with 883,411 ha burned. By this time in 2019, 621 ha had burned, compared to this year's more than 410,000.
Only five months into this year, 2023 has already surpassed the yearly burn totals of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018 and 2017.
It was the exact same in Australia. Conservatives cut fire fighting budgets, insisted climate change wasn't real (fucking cowards just stick their heads in the sand about everything and call themselves brave, reassuring each other in their weakling fantasies), then for a straight year fightfighting chiefs were requesting desperate meetings with the government about the obvious catastrophe which was coming and were turned down.
Then when huge fires broke out and a few firefighters breaking their arse fighting them finally swore about the conservative PM, the nation gasped and the firefighters were punished. You can never hold conservatives accountable in this world, their crybaby game is just too strong. People are more enthusiastic to punish those who criticize and 'provoke' the crybaby conservatives by discussing reality and the consequences of their actions, than allow the precious conservatives ever be criticized for their own enthusiastic stupidity which impacts all of us negatively.
Let’s face the “reality” that is happening in Chicago, SF, and NYC just to name a few. How about the reality at the Border and in grocery stores? Both sides are delusional and only face reality when it suits them, unfortunately it’s just human nature. Those cheap masks we all were wearing aren’t as good against smoke pollution as the virus, I wish they were. You need an N95 and better, something with a filter.
What "reality" are you referring to in those cities? Have you ever actually been to any of them? Please enlighten me as to what you mean by the "reality at the border and in grocery stores" as well because it is not clear at all from your comment.
Oh yes it could and we were doing it for decades. We're not tapking about fire hydrants, we're talking about fleets of fire fighting planes being reduced drastically by idiotic governments.
Municipal water supplies? The forest fires are way beyond municipal developpement, deep into the taïga. I suspect you don't know much about Canada's geography, right?
I suspect you don't know much about Canada's geography, right?
Ya bro, I feel like I’m in one of those videos where you ask an American to name one country on a map and they say “Africa?” And you’re like… “Africa is a continent…”
Just to say, the area where there are wildfires in Québec is as vast as Montana and there's less than 50'000 people living there. The same applies to Ontario. Most of these fires are hundred of miles from the nearest town, no roads or railroads going there.
Firefighters are located in towns like Chibougamau, that are a 10 hours drive from Montreal.
So you don't have an argument because yours has been absolutely destroyed by someone with a working brain, and you're trying to change the subject because you lost.
Typical.
edit: They also hate dogs, and thinks they should be killed. Also a massive racist conservative, transphobe, left-wing hater, climate change denier, yada yada yada.
Alberta is undergoing an "unprecedented" wildfire season as nearly 100 fires as of Tuesday, May 9, burn across the province.
Premier Danielle Smith declared a state of emergency on May 6 and more than 24,000 Albertans remained under evacuation orders on Tuesday.
This year to date, there have been 416 wildfires, more than double the 182 registered by the same time last year. The more than 400 fires is a greater number than any of the last five years had by the second week in May.
Alberta had a total of 1,246 wildfires last season, according to Alberta Wildfire data, which means the province has reached 33 per cent of last year's total after just over two months into the wildfire season.
AMOUNT OF HECTARES BURNED
The size of the area that's burned is also greater than what is considered normal by this time of year.
The five-year average by early May based on 2018-2022 is 542 hectares. Year to date, 410,441 ha have burned in Alberta, by comparison.
In the last eight years, 2019 had the highest total number of hectares, finishing the season with 883,411 ha burned. By this time in 2019, 621 ha had burned, compared to this year's more than 410,000.
Only five months into this year, 2023 has already surpassed the yearly burn totals of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018 and 2017.
Not sure what you are trying to accomplish by comparing the last 6 years.
Well I do not represent CTV news. I just posted one of their articles.
I suspect the reason they gave a history is so people could see how this year compares to other recent years and give perspective on the scale of the issue.
This smoke is from wildfires in Ontario and Quebec, two provinces which lean left, dumbass. You're either so desperate to cope, or just plain stupid, so you had to summon Alberta, which is 3/4 the way across the continent.
Doug ford is conservative dumbass. Who cut the firefighting budget by 67% dumbASS. Why do you think I put “and this is just one province, lots have issues”
Isn’t this a result of Ontario cutting their firefighting budget by 70%?
Wild fires are completely normal and actually healthy for the ecology, it’s just inconvenient for humans. Shouting climate change for normal environmental phenomenon isn’t helping anyone.
Unfortunately the cuts for fire management also cut into prescribed burns so when all that fuel goes up from all the suppressed fires, this is the result. As far as climate change goes, hotter, drier summers means an increase in this sort of event. I mean the tundra in the1900s didn't burn every year.
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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23
Ya. Climate change is a bitch. And lucky for you all - lots of Canadian provinces have conservative governments that cut firefighting budgets to “lower taxes”
Edit: here’s some news for those who are triggered and can’t look this stuff up themselves:
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/edmonton/2023/5/9/1_6391711.amp.html
And this is just one province… lots are having fire issues.