So everyone knows that the forest fires have nothing to do with climate change, right? Good. Once again, we’re warming at a rate of between 0.02 and 0.03 C per year. The IPCC didn’t pick the end of the century, 80 years from now, as it’s deadline because we’re at some kind of crisis point today. 50 to 80 years x 0.03C may well add up to a problem towards the end of the century, but not today.
The bad news, however, is that we may well be having these forest fires for another 20 to 30 years. The real main cause of these forest fires is the build up of dead material on the forest floor, because we’ve been putting
out forest fires for the last 100 years, and not letting the smaller fires burn and natural the forest renewal process take its course. And as a result we’ve got these huge fires just waiting to break out all over the forested area of the province.
The same thing was discussed in that PBS show earlier in this thread. I know that they’re thinning out and doing prescribed burns around towns now, but there is just too much forest to thin out manually. It’s going to have to burn off, and because of the way we’ve managed the forest over the last century those fires are now going to be big ones.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5340342/a...e-suppression/
(For those who’ve been following along, ironically the expert in this article is from Queens!)