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.