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Quebec the new epicenter of Canada's raging wildfires

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By Mathiew LEISER and Anne-Sophie THILL

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Canada has been hit repeatedly by extreme weather in recent years, the intensity and frequency of which have increased due to global warming.

Human activity-derived climate change is predicted to increase the number and intensity of wild fires, combined with carelessness this means that places having disasters of unusual importance may become the new norm. Doubling the number of fires in Quebec is a sign that should worry the people exposed to this risk, even if they were considered safe before.

Hopefully authorities can still react on time to limit the importance or prevent these disasters, more risk can justify higher expenses to deal with the problem.

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"We are experiencing a situation never seen... everywhere in Quebec," warned Francois Bonnardel, Quebec's public safety minister, stressing that a large number of these fires were sparked by human carelessness.

Hopefully they will do something to prevent future human-sparked fires. Perhaps by trying to identify those who started them and hold them accountable.

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Why is NATO not responding,the US is having to send firefighter to Canada to defend the US from being polluted by Canadian,why is article 5 being invoked

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These canadian fires are polluting the US and it's hard for residents in the northern states to get any outside chores done around the house because they can't breathe.

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YrralToday 04:19 am JST

Why is NATO not responding,the US is having to send firefighter to Canada to defend the US from being polluted by Canadian,why is article 5 being invoked

Article 5 is for armed attack. I know you are capable of looking this up.

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Hopefully they will do something to prevent future human-sparked fires. Perhaps by trying to identify those who started them and hold them accountable.

Exactly.

Especially when combined with the natural incidents that ignite these fires, we might see more.

Or we might not.

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The Quebec fires were almost all started by humans, according to the official in this video (in French, around 54 min in):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRRA0I0BG_0

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Especially when combined with the natural incidents that ignite these fires, we might see more.

Or we might not.

According to the experts the human activity derived climate change makes it much more likely for fires to appear. This includes those caused by mistake by humans and those naturally produced. The conditions that promote the fires appearing and being more important apply for both.

Mistakes that previously would not have caused a fire (or one that was easily controlled) will end up causing fires more frequently and those fires will be more dangerous.

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According to the experts the human activity derived climate change makes it much more likely for fires to appear. This includes those caused by mistake by humans and those naturally produced. The conditions that promote the fires appearing and being more important apply for both.

The experts have recognized that human activity has directly been responsible for most wild fires. Lighting matches and so forth.

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The experts have recognized that human activity has directly been responsible for most wild fires. Lighting matches and so forth.

That still means the climatic changes are making those fires more likely to happen, your argument does nothing to refute this.

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The Quebec fires were almost all started by humans, according to the official in this video (in French, around 54 min in):

True. No reason to try and twist the facts to meet the extreme agenda.

That still means the climatic changes are making those fires more likely to happen, your argument does nothing to refute this.

The argument does refute that.

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True. No reason to try and twist the facts to meet the extreme agenda

What twisting are you talking about? what arguments do you have to refute the fact that climate change will make all fires easier to be produced and more destructive? there is nothing wrong with that, and this also includes fires produced directly by human action.

The argument does refute that.

That is very difficult, since there is no argument addressing this point. A fire beginning naturally or by human action does nothing to disprove the fact that climate change makes both easier to be produced.

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The writers just dropped this sentence into the middle of the article as if global warming was an established fact recognized by all. They cut out the bit about it being the average sucker's fault for just trying to make ends meet and your individual guilt.

Quote: "Canada has been hit repeatedly by extreme weather in recent years, the intensity and frequency of which have increased due to global warming."

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What twisting are you talking about? what arguments do you have to refute the fact that climate change will make all fires easier to be produced and more destructive? there is nothing wrong with that, and this also includes fires produced directly by human action.

You are blaming a supposed climate change here but the fact is natural weather events are the main cause.

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The writers just dropped this sentence into the middle of the article as if global warming was an established fact recognized by all.

That is because it is a established fact recognized by the global scientific community, something very easy to corroborate by searching for the official opinion expressed by any recognized institutions of science in a related field. There is no example where this is contradicted.

You are blaming a supposed climate change here but the fact is natural weather events are the main cause

It is not me but the experts that clearly demonstrate the climate change is what makes fires much more likely to happen and also increase their intensity, the article clearly mentions this

Canada has been hit repeatedly by extreme weather in recent years, the intensity and frequency of which have increased due to global warming.

Unless you can provide a scientific source that contradicts this, the only logical option is to accept it a true.

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According to the experts the human activity derived climate change makes it much more likely for fires to appear.

Oh, but the climate change not derived from human activity doesn't?

The more the deep state wants to further their climate agenda, the more likely are humans to intentionally start fires....

The Quebec fires were almost all started by humans.

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Oh, but the climate change not derived from human activity doesn't?

Since it is a tiny minuscule portion of the causes for practical consideration it doesn't. It is like looking at an abused kid with fractures and asking if his barely below normal calcium levels are not partially responsible for them.

The more the deep state wants to further their climate agenda, the more likely are humans to intentionally start fires....

Any evidence for any of these two conspiracy theories? how would them contradict the scientific consensus on the role of human activity derived climate change in the frequency and size of fires?

The Quebec fires were almost all started by humans.

Again, that does absolutely nothing to refute that climate change is making all kinds of fires easier to produce, including both natural and human caused fires. A mistake that would have not caused a fire (or one much more easier to control) is becoming more and more likely to cause a fire of higher destructive power because of the changes in climate.

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Oh, but the climate change not derived from human activity doesn't?

The more the deep state wants to further their climate agenda, the more likely are humans to intentionally start fires....

The Quebec fires were almost all started by humans.

As the weather gets warmer in the spring and summer, as has been the case for hundreds of years, human activity outside increases.

Since it is a tiny minuscule portion of the causes for practical consideration it doesn't. It is like looking at an abused kid with fractures and asking if his barely below normal calcium levels are not partially responsible for them.

Your misunderstanding is interesting. According to the experts it is the complete opposite.

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As the weather gets warmer in the spring and summer, as has been the case for hundreds of years, human activity outside increases.

How does this contradict the fact that human activity derived climate change is proved to promote the occurrence of fires as well as their destructive powers?

Your misunderstanding is interesting. According to the experts it is the complete opposite.

No, it is not, as surely as you have been repeatedly called to substantiate this claim with official declarations of scientific associations and you have been always unable to do it, proving the experts do not say the complete opposite as you claim.

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How does this contradict the fact that human activity derived climate change is proved to promote the occurrence of fires as well as their destructive powers?

As has been well-established, these Quebec fires are primarily caused by natural events such as lightning along with direct acts of humans.

Why continually bring in non-related speculative claims over and over?

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Could Japan and Canada enter some kind of trade agreement where Japan sends the typhoons hitting Japan to Canada to drench the forest fires?...

It should be born in mind that it's unfortunate that these forests are burning - but likely these same forests have absorbed a hell of a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere...this is nature...not politics...

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