Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
The Reality of a Platters Hit
Smoke from western wildfires has often filled the air around our Idaho home. The smoke typically rolls in from California or Oregon, but this year, in the month of May, it was from wildfires in the Grande Prairie Forest Area, in Northern Alberta. I have written extensively on the wildfires on the west coast, clearly illustrating that they are not a consequence of any change in climate. One such article would be the “The Anatomy of Wildfires”. Worldwide, wildfires are down by 25%.
Other than radio and television networks warning the elderly to stay indoors during these hazy times, people seem to accept the oft-experienced condition without much concern other than frequently having to turn on vehicle headlights during the day. However, when it hits the major metropolitan areas in New England and states farther to the south, it’s an unquestionable climate change crisis. Some television stations have more photographs and videos of New York City than during the dropping of the Times Square New Year’s lighted ball at midnight.
The smoke is the result of fires in Canada, occurring in the eastern provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, but most of the smoke is coming from wildfires in Quebec. In an article entitled, “Media Wrong Again about Quebec wildfires”, Robert Girouard writes about the fires and just how customary and normal these fires can be.
Living for several years in the boreal forests of Northern Ontario, not far from Quebec, I can attest to Girouard’s testimony when he writes, “The boreal forest is particularly vulnerable to fires because it is mainly composed of resinous trees, which have a high flammability index compared to deciduous trees. Spring is also a season particularly conducive to forest fires because once the snow melts, the fuel accumulated on the ground quickly dries out. It should be noted that this is also the time when human activities responsible for 50% to 75% of vegetation fires resume.”
The author uses text from Canada’s Department of Natural Resources as well as other documentation to exemplify how activists simply use every unfortunate natural occurrence to elevate their false narrative on human-generated climate change.
Ironically the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a state-sponsored climate promoter disseminates an article entitled, “Forest fires could destabilize Quebec wildlife for years to come, say, experts”. While that may have some truth or merit, these fires have been around for eons, and wildlife always conquers through, and yet, the article only uses a crisis-assisting 10-year average. The only reason for this article is to endorse anthropogenic climate change, a major campaign of the taxpayer-funded network.
The smoke that is currently wafting through the major east coast cosmopolitan areas is really about wind direction. The perfect storm of forest fires and wind direction has caused the situation – in other years wind direction may not have allowed the smoke to travel south or as far south.
In the late 1970s, for two years I toiled in a regional office for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources as well as their headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. This is the provincial department that fights wildfires. During the spring and summer, there were very few male employees left in several of the regional and district offices, because they were all out assisting with the stoppage of wildfires.
If you want to talk about wildfires and their frequency, remember Smokey Bear wasn’t born yesterday.
