Electric.

[TOM4CWB]

BTW…

Electricity is a huge creator of fires…

Always has been… and will be.

Lightning fixes nitrogen from the air… the rain washes the nitrogen in to the plants and soils…

All an amazing miracle of engineering to cycle the nutrients… needed for life on planet earth!

Enjoy life CC… be thankful and be a friendly neighbor… hug your family… Bless and encourage!

Blessings and Prayers

[AlbertaFarmer5]

CC… as usual… you provide only some of the information… unbalanced… Fire has had a huge impact on the development of our soils. Fire is A natural normal part of our wonderful creation we call planet earth!



Context is important…. Before humans stopped fires… they (FIRE) ruled the landscape particularly in drought and hot periods of our planetary history.

Stating the obvious is important… when examining Climate Charge exaggeration and deception.

Blessings and Prayers

We have a lot of peat moss soils around here. When I first started researching about them, I was shocked to discover that they are one to 2% ash. That takes a lot of fires over the millennia to add up to that much ash.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Speaking of electric vehicles, and do-gooders who don't have a clue what they are talking about.
This lady reminds me of someone, but I can't quite place who it is?

https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1667364272702124032?s=20

[furrowtickler]

Speaking of electric vehicles, and do-gooders who don't have a clue what they are talking about.
This lady reminds me of someone, but I can't quite place who it is?
https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status...702124032?s=20

Probably the leader of the woke mob in her area my guess .

[chuckChuck]

Tom you said "Our western Canadian soils were formed primarily by wildfires…"

Which means you think fire was the most important factor in the development of western canadian soils.

That is simply not true Tom. Fire release nutrients, but it doesn't create them. It releases carbon it doesn't create carbon.

Fire played a role in the temperate grasslands, but it didn't create soil from the parent materials or capture energy, carbon, and nutrients and store them in soil organic matter.

[chuckChuck]

https://www.topcropmanager.com/grassland-developed-soils/

Factors affecting soil formation

Western Canadian soils have formed and developed over the past 10,000 years as a result of the interaction of six major factors: climate, vegetation, parent material, topography, drainage and time. The relative influence of each factor varies, and the interaction of these factors determined the type of soil that developed at the local level.

Climate, specifically temperature and precipitation level, has strongly influenced the types of native vegetation that survived and flourished over the past 10,000 years. For example, the climate of Brown soil zone is typically relatively warm, with higher evapotranspiration and lower precipitation resulting in short, drought tolerant prairie grasses being the dominant native vegetation. The Black soil zone is relatively cooler with lower evapotranspiration and higher precipitation, resulting in lusher fescue native grass vegetation.
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The type of vegetation strongly influenced soil development including the types and amounts organic matter added to the soil, which in turn influenced soil colour. Typically, the darker the soil colour, the higher the amount of soil organic matter.

Parent material refers to the various types of geological deposits which determined the minerals on which soil formed, and determined characteristics such as soil texture, soil nutrient levels and water holding capacity. For example, lacustrine parent material was deposited in glacial lakebeds. The deposited material tended to be fine textured clay and topography tended to be relatively flat to undulating and mostly stone free. This is in contrast to glacial till material with variable soil texture, gently rolling to hummocky topography and often with moderate level of stones.

Topography and slope position strongly influenced soil development. For example, soil development was minimal on the tops of a knolls versus lower slope positions. On the top knolls, water infiltration is limited and water runoff is greater versus lower slope positions with greater water infiltration and limited water runoff. Variation in stored soil moisture influenced the amount of vegetation growth, soil development, and organic matter addition to soil.

Surface drainage and internal drainage influenced soil moisture, which in turn influenced vegetation types and amount of growth and soil development.

The processes of soil development in Western Canada have taken place slowly over time during the past 10,000 years. In the past 150 years, human influence has become a seventh additional factor that continues to influence subtle to significant changes to soil. For example, the wheat-fallow system commonly used between 1920 and 1970 resulted in a significant decline in soil organic matter and contributed to extensive wind and water erosion of soil. However, in the past 30 years, the shift to continuous cropping, direct seeding and diverse crop rotations have had a profound improvement on soil quality.

[chuckChuck]

Tom I don't see fire in the list of major factors affecting soil formation!

If you want more detail on the origins of soils and the different types you can read this:

Field Handbook for the Soils of Western
Canada
Section 1
Soil Genesis and Geographical Distribution

https://soilsofcanada.ca/documents/Soil%20Genesis%20and%20Geographical%20Distribution .pdf

[Hamloc]

Chuck, do you have any comment on what the electrical utility operators and regulators say about renewable energy destabilizing the grid in the quotes above?
You have been asking for this Information.

I can’t believe it, Chuck2 didn’t respond. I guess he couldn’t figure out how to link your question to racism and bigotry.

[chuckChuck]

So you don't agree with Tom that fire made the soils of western Canada?

It must be time to change the subject?

Let the utilities figure it out. They don't need your amateur hour help or advice.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

So you don't agree with Tom that fire made the soils of western Canada?

It must be time to change the subject?

Let the utilities figure it out. They don't need your amateur hour help or advice.

That's who the quotes are from. The utilities and their regulators and associations are warning the amateur hour politicians that their policies are destroying the reliability of the power grid.
You keep asking us to take our concerns to these very groups. That's why I brought this to your attention.
You have no comments on their concerns?