The Globe and Mail led the Canadian media in unambiguous imputation of the unusually heavy forest fires two weeks ago to climate change. “The large, widespread wildfires this spring will happen more and more often,” read a Globe“The amount of forest burned each year is predicted to double ever escalating climate heating is the propellant of all of this.“ Because global warming did not escalate as was deafeningly predicted 25 years ago, and only amounts to approximately 1.
The clarity comes from “a study” which unfortunately is not identified. However, “it all circles back to the interconnected extremes of human-caused climate heating.” There eventually followed the inevitable exhortations to “cutting greenhouse gas emission as fast as possible… major investments in clean power to slash use of oil and natural gas. Every country must act… Consider that Canadian per capita emissions are three quarters greater than China’s.” This is unsubstantiated rubbish.
Therefore it is eminently logical, according to the Trudeau government, cheered on by the always ashen and pious Globe and Mail, that the safety of the world requires that Canada festoon itself with solar panels and windmills, take to the bicycle lanes and public transit systems, give its provincial governments the right to lower the home thermostats of the whole country and shiver in self-inflicted discomfort in order to reduce carbon use in the world by approximately one half of one per cent.
As for the forest fires, before it put on its editorial fire-hat in alarm over its anonymous “study,” the Globe and Mail might have considered the Fraser Institute’s authoritative and comprehensiveof Canadian forest fires over 60 years which noted “a general decline in in the second half” of that period. The peak in occurrence of forest fires came in 1989 with 7.6 million hectares burned, compared to 1.8 million hectares in 2019, .
One fifth of one per cent of boreal forest is cut and removed annually while approximately five per cent perishes from the combination of fire, insects, and tree disease. Whatever is happening to the climate has absolutely nothing to do with forest fires. This kind of unrigorous pseudo-scientific fear-mongering is part of a societal death wish.