Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:40:32 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>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.

So you can have an idea of what it was like in central ontario.

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

Meanwhile do nothing, do nothing, do nothing, deny, deny, deniers
think they know what is best.,
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