After historic seasons in last two years, blazes continue trend of warm, dry conditions intensified by climate crisis
Enormous early-season wildfires have erupted across the prairie provinces of Canada this week, taxing local emergency response and threatening a long stretch of dangerous air quality across eastern North America.
The country’s largest fires – the Bird River fire and the Border fire – remain completely uncontained in northern Manitoba. In Manitoba alone, wildfires have burned about 200,000 hectares already this year – already about three times the recent full-year average for the province.
More than 17,000 people are in the process of being airlifted out of wildfire zones by the Canadian military, some of which now have no safe overland roads connecting them to the rest of the country. Wab Kinew, the Manitoba premier, declared a province-wide state of emergency on Wednesday, and Saskatchewan’s premier, Scott Moe, declared the same on Thursday.
Is Trump going to put a tariff on smoke imports?
He’ll change his tariff reason from fentanyl pouring across the border to smoke.
“Why don’t they just turn on the taps? Those canadians, the 51st state, they’re poisoning us, the biggest smog we’ve ever seen, I turned on the taps in California and I’ll do it again now folks”
edit- I asked ChatGPT to make it more trump-like
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edit3- I told GPT that Trudeau isn’t president and gave Carney the Obvious trump nickname.
Probably just declare war for the chemical attack
He’s too big a chicken for that.
Is that taco I smell?
Good thing we’re fighting culture wars instead of climate change.
No … Mother Earth is going to put a tariff on our lungs
Those Dyson Air-Purifying headphones looking more ahead of their time every day.