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AskPippa🇨🇦Fires in Canada today, June 28, 2023.
#smoke #Canada #canadawildfires #CanadaIsOnFire #pollution
Archie@AskPippa Is this normal for Canada or is this a huge increase?
@Archie8 A massive increase, and it's early in the season. It's so bad, smoke has been going down to the US where places like New York City and Chicago have been putting out air quality warnings. Smoke has gone over to Europe too -- it all depends on which way the wind decides to take it.
Predictions are that with #climate change, there will be more fires and more frequent. An added problem is if an area burns too often, it doesn't get a chance to grow back -- and there are some scary articles saying big areas of our forests might become savannah.
Anyway, we don't normally get smoke like this in Toronto.
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/forest-fire-centre-declares-2023-already-worst-year-ever-for-canadian-wildfires-1.6456879
@AskPippa I saw an article today saying that the fires have released 600 million tonnes of C02 since May and that's 80% of Canada's total annual average.
I hope they recover.
This is going to cost Canada so much money to prevent in the future isn't it. You'll need to cut thousands of miles of additional cleared fire breaks in the forests for a start!
I hope they recover.
This is going to cost Canada so much money to prevent in the future isn't it. You'll need to cut thousands of miles of additional cleared fire breaks in the forests for a start!
artisanroxI can't even comprehend that much out-of-control fire. o_o