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Is Arson Or Climate Change Causing Canada's Forest Fires · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  So what is the real story behind all those forest fires in Canada? While
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  we're starting to find out, Here's the headline, Quebec man pleads guilty to
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  setting fourteen forest fires. Trudeau claimed it was climate change. Well, of
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  course he did. He's got two things that he blames everything on, scary
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  maga conservatives in Canada, and of course climate change. But it seems like
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  reality might be telling us something else. Here's a story from May in twenty
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  twenty three, charges laid in series of intentionally set Alberta wildfires. How about
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  this just published today, Canadian charge for allegedly lighting a fire that grew to
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  be the largest in Nova Scotia's history. How about this one from May last
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  year, women arrested after a string of fires intentionally set in souk And these
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  are just the ones I found in literally five minutes of looking now. In
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  twenty twenty three, Canada had a record number of hectares burned. Eighteen point
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  five million is what the media is reporting, and the National Forestry Database only
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  goes as far as twenty twenty one, so we'll see if that number is
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  adjusted at all. But you can see from nineteen ninety five, which was
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  which was the previous high in the last thirty years that was a seven point
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  three million hectares so far less than half. So it's absolutely anomalous. And
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  this black line is the number of fires in Canada per year, and you
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  can see that's been on a downward trajectory steadily so. And you can see
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  the area burning had been, you know, maybe a little over half that
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  much at its peak since And if you look at twenty twenty, this is
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  very interesting. Barely anything there at all by comparison, and what happened in
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  twenty twenty, Well, everybody was locked down that year, weren't they.
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  So that's pretty strange. And then in twenty twenty one you do have a
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  jump up. In twenty twenty three, it goes through the roof. I
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  mean something changed, right, I mean the climate didn't change that much over
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  you know, two three years. The force didn't change that much over two
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  three years. And it makes me wonder if there's a combination of things happening.
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  You have lunatics running around the country setting fires, but you've also got
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  this. I ran across this article from McLean's from twenty twenty three. Big
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  idea to fight wildfires bring back preventative burns for centuries, indigenous fire keepers kept
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  force clear of fuel. It's time to fight fire with fire once again,
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  they say. Months or years can pass before a permit or prescription is approved.
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  It takes time to identify an area, set a date, coordinate equipment,
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  and develop a safe burn plan with the ministry, all of which are
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  required steps. Because of this lag, spring and fall, burn windows are
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  often missed, and the number of prescribed burns in British Columbia has dropped signific
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  in the last decade to ten thousand hectares annually, for comparison, in the
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  seventies and eighties, one hundred thousand hectares burned there each year. This is
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  not enough, especially compared to the four to six million hectares prescriptively burned annually
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  in the US. Not only do agencies need to expedite the approvals process,
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  they should also address the public perception that all smoke is bad. Complaints from
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  neighboring communities can shut down burns, even ones that are fully permitted, and
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  this is something that's happened. People have complained about the smoke from the prescribed
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  burns, so they stop doing them. The fuel builds up, and when
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  you do get a fire, it burns hard. Let's go back to the
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  National Forestry Database. Here's number of fires by cause. Can see here prescribed
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  burn going back to nineteen ninety. See they're just not happening. They start
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  to trickle in in recent years, but even still barely anything. Here British
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  Columbia starting in nineteen ninety can see there's nothing, nothing, and then just
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  a trickle, barely anything. And you see the same thing across Canada.
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  So what is that, Well, it's totally reckless forestry policy. So you
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  have that in combination with lunatics running around starting fires, combined with dry weather,
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  and even though the trend in forest fires has actually been a downward trend
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  for the last thirty years, suddenly you have the perfect storm and boom,
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  eighteen million hectors gone. And then you have the prime virtue signaler of Canada,
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  just In Trudeau, blaming it solely on the thing that his government is
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  completely obsessed with, which is tragic because the last person in the world you
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  can expect responsible forest management from is a guy who's counting on forest fires getting
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  him votes. Anyway, That's all I gotta say about that. Please subscribe,
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  for that. I will see you next time.