Canada reports worst wildfire season on record — and there's more to come this fall

[chuckChuck]

https://www.wri.org/insights/global-trends-forest-fires

New Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse
August 17, 2022 By James MacCarthy, Sasha Tyukavina, Mikaela Weisse and Nancy Harris

New data on forest fires confirms what we’ve long feared: Forest fires are becoming more widespread, burning nearly twice as much tree cover today as they did 20 years ago.

Using data from a new study by researchers at the University of Maryland, we calculated that forest fires now result in 3 million more hectares of tree cover loss per year compared to 2001 — an area roughly the size of Belgium — and accounted for more than a quarter of all tree cover loss over the past 20 years.

"The extent of area burned by wildfires each year appears to have increased since the 1980s. According to National Interagency Fire Center data, of the 10 years with the largest acreage burned, all have occurred since 2004, including the peak year in 2015 (see Figure 2). This period coincides with many of the warmest years on record nationwide (see the U.S. and Global Temperature indicator). The largest increases have occurred during the spring and summer months (see Figure 6)."

[cropgrower]

huge fines and many years of jail time for arsonists would be a great first step , they are talking about gun control but a box of matches is far worse in the hands of a lunatic

[chuckChuck]

Lightning starts the majority of forest fires by far.

So any suggestions that arson is the crux of the problem is silly.

[cropgrower]

so a fire started by arson is OK because another fire was started by lightning ? same stupid argument as the sicko trannys wanting to be around kids , thats OK because priests done something worse

[chuckChuck]

so a fire started by arson is OK because another fire was started by lightning ? same stupid argument as the sicko trannys wanting to be around kids , thats OK because priests done something worse

Never said that arson was okay crap. LOL

You just keep going with the stupid ideas about forest fires, climate change and all trans people are predators? Agrisilly at its finest.

Heterosexual males are the vast majority of pedophiles and predators by far. So where is your outrage Crap?

[cropgrower]

back to the childish name calling again , and i have said many times my opinion on anybody that harms a child

[chuckChuck]

So why focuss on the extremely small number of trans people?

Probably because you are a homophobe and a bigot?

[cropgrower]

they are the ones that are trying their hardest to groom and influence the kids right now

[AlbertaFarmer5]

So the self declared libertarian wants posters to only post about ag in the rural issues thread? What kind of libertarian tells other people what they can post? LOL

Climate change and renewable energy are rural issues don't you think?

Why do you post on these issues and then complain about the lack of ag content? Lame again!

Since you recently admitted that you are only posting here to stir the pot, why not stir the pot on Agriville using issues important to farmers? Save the social justice issues for the other forums you work at?

For example, you could start a thread extolling the virtues of your Coop Implement 960 combine as compared to the JD 6601.

Or you could make the case for a marketing board where farmers pool their grain and pay some bureaucrats to market it for them at far below world prices, eventually.

You could start a thread about how farmers could be growing crops without buying inputs from the evil corporations. And without using fuel from the evil fossil fuel companies. You could provide examples from your own farm.

Or, since climate change is already baked in, you could post about what crops and methods farmers in western Canada could adopt to adjust to this new reality. Crops that are fire resistant, flood resistant, frost resistant, drought resistant, cold tolerant, heat tolerant, hurricane resistant, etc. You could provide real life examples from your own operation.

I suspect that you can post about issues near and dear to farmers, and still stir the pot at the same time.

You might even get reinstated in the adult forum this way.

Give it a try.

[shtferbrains]

https://www.wri.org/insights/global-trends-forest-fires

New Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse
August 17, 2022 By James MacCarthy, Sasha Tyukavina, Mikaela Weisse and Nancy Harris

New data on forest fires confirms what we’ve long feared: Forest fires are becoming more widespread, burning nearly twice as much tree cover today as they did 20 years ago.

Using data from a new study by researchers at the University of Maryland, we calculated that forest fires now result in 3 million more hectares of tree cover loss per year compared to 2001 — an area roughly the size of Belgium — and accounted for more than a quarter of all tree cover loss over the past 20 years.

"The extent of area burned by wildfires each year appears to have increased since the 1980s. According to National Interagency Fire Center data, of the 10 years with the largest acreage burned, all have occurred since 2004, including the peak year in 2015 (see Figure 2). This period coincides with many of the warmest years on record nationwide (see the U.S. and Global Temperature indicator). The largest increases have occurred during the spring and summer months (see Figure 6)."

Same data I posted earlier.

Did you not look at it or can you not understand what it shows? Which is non of the above.

2023 is a bad yr for fires. But what you posted does not apply to Canada.

[jazz]

Maybe chuck can tell us if obama and oprah and bezos will be selling their properties now.

I mean they are on the front line of climate change. Fire burns you out and the seal levels drown you out.

Funny they are still greenlighting homebuilding in boreal areas and on maimi waterfront.

I am sure its nothing because we will all be dead by 2030 right chuck.

[chuckChuck]

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Same data I posted earlier.

Did you not look at it or can you not understand what it shows? Which is non of the above.

2023 is a bad yr for fires. But what you posted does not apply to Canada.

The research I posted looks at global trends. You posted data from only one country from 1980 to 2000


If you use the period 1959 2015 the trend the number of fires over 200ha and area burned has increased.

Fire-regime changes in Canada over the last half century
Authors: Chelene C. Hanes chelene.hanes@canada.ca, Xianli Wang xianli.wang@canada.ca, Piyush Jain, Marc-André Parisien, John M. Little, and Mike D. FlanniganAuthors Info & Affiliations
Publication: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
16 November 2018
https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2018-0293

Abstract
Contemporary fire regimes of Canadian forests have been well documented based on forest fire records between the late 1950s to 1990s. Due to known limitations of fire datasets, an analysis of changes in fire-regime characteristics could not be easily undertaken. This paper presents fire-regime trends nationally and within two zonation systems, the homogeneous fire-regime zones and ecozones, for two time periods, 1959–2015 and 1980–2015. Nationally, trends in both area burned and number of large fires (≥200 ha) have increased significantly since 1959, which might be due to increases in lightning-caused fires. Human-caused fires, in contrast, have shown a decline. Results suggest that large fires have been getting larger over the last 57 years and that the fire season has been starting approximately one week earlier and ending one week later. At the regional level, trends in fire regimes are variable across the country, with fewer significant trends. Area burned, number of large fires, and lightning-caused fires are increasing in most of western Canada, whereas human-caused fires are either stable or declining throughout the country. Overall, Canadian forests appear to have been engaged in a trajectory towards more active fire regimes over the last half century.
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[kANOLA]

The research I posted looks at global trends. You posted data from only one country from 1980 to 2000


If you use the period 1959 2015 the trend the number of fires over 200ha and area burned has increased.

Fire-regime changes in Canada over the last half century
Authors: Chelene C. Hanes chelene.hanes@canada.ca, Xianli Wang xianli.wang@canada.ca, Piyush Jain, Marc-André Parisien, John M. Little, and Mike D. FlanniganAuthors Info & Affiliations
Publication: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
16 November 2018
https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2018-0293

Abstract
Contemporary fire regimes of Canadian forests have been well documented based on forest fire records between the late 1950s to 1990s. Due to known limitations of fire datasets, an analysis of changes in fire-regime characteristics could not be easily undertaken. This paper presents fire-regime trends nationally and within two zonation systems, the homogeneous fire-regime zones and ecozones, for two time periods, 1959–2015 and 1980–2015. Nationally, trends in both area burned and number of large fires (≥200 ha) have increased significantly since 1959, which might be due to increases in lightning-caused fires. Human-caused fires, in contrast, have shown a decline. Results suggest that large fires have been getting larger over the last 57 years and that the fire season has been starting approximately one week earlier and ending one week later. At the regional level, trends in fire regimes are variable across the country, with fewer significant trends. Area burned, number of large fires, and lightning-caused fires are increasing in most of western Canada, whereas human-caused fires are either stable or declining throughout the country. Overall, Canadian forests appear to have been engaged in a trajectory towards more active fire regimes over the last half century.
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Sorry I am not a cut and paste guy,but I have been travelling in Alaska for the last five days and with everyone we have met they tell us how cool and wet the season has been.The Yukon seemed fairly dry but as we drove west it’s a different story.I really believe we are dealing with weather like weather does it’s thing. Last year my bear hunt was called off because of a hot dry spring and berries didn’t set. This year it’s totally opposite.I think we are being fed a bunch of BS.

[chuckChuck]

Anecdotal evidence and personal opinions don't stand up to research looking at many regions over long time periods.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Anecdotal evidence and personal opinions don't stand up to research looking at many regions over long time periods.

Yes, we really should look at forest fires over longer periods of time. Not cherry pick one season in one country .



Meanwhile, the US is having one of their lowest years ever for forest fires. It seems you cherry picked one region of one country in one season and attributed that to climate change. That looks more like anecdotal evidence and personal opinions than science to me.