Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On 7/30/2026 3:50 PM, Tara wrote:
> Julian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 30/07/2026 19:56, Tara wrote:
>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:53:09 PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On 30/07/2026 19:29, Tara wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:04:17 PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sadly he was proved right. So was I. After I warned in these very pages
>>>>>> last year that government policy was worsening the fire risk on
>>>>>> moorland, it gives me no pleasure to say: ‘I told you so.’
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Matt Ridley
>>>>>
>>>>> Indigenous peoples in North America have been conrolling the threat of wild
>>>>> fires with prescribed/controlled burns for centuries. Canada is looking to do
>>>>> the same in co-operation with our native people. We have a problem doing this
>>>>> however because of the acessibility and vastness of our forests. But in a
>>>>> country the size of Britain (and other European countries), it seems to me
>>>>> that controlled fires are a no brainer.
>>>>
>>>> Are inaccessible fires in vast forests really a problem?
>>>> I think they're as likely good for the land's long term health.
>>>
>>> There is that, but an uncontrolled fire can massively grow and send a lot of
>>> smoke to people populated areas.
>>
>> A bit like a volcano.
> 
> Yeah like that. 

The northeast US is hundreds of miles from the wildfires yet we've had 
serious air quality warnings this year and last. A few weeks ago it 
literally dimmed the sun for several days, making what was otherwise a 
clear day look cloudy.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfires-smoke-millions-exposed-midwest-northeast-us/

Those pictures are not an exaggeration. That's what it really looked like.

Meanwhile the idiot treehuggers think they know what's best.