We’ve had a lot of hazy sunshine in recent weeks. Often you can smell smoke when you go outside and the people you talk to will say, “It’s from those Canadian wildfires,” but do you know anything about those fires? No one ever mentions any details and it makes you wonder. We had a long wet spring and temperatures until recently were fairly mild, so why are all of those fires happening up in Canada?
Those of us who have been around for a while might wonder why this became a problem in recent years. I don’t recall it being an issue previously and it makes you wonder if those fires are occurring naturally or if they have had some unnatural help. It also makes you wonder why they aren’t under control instead of being accepted as some sort of normal event that should just burn itself out.
A Michigan congressman wrote a letter to the Canadian prime minister demanding action to address the issue because of all of the smoke drifting over the United States, lowering air quality and threatening public health. Well, good luck.
The smoke shown in the image at the top of the page is currently not over our local region due to a high pressure area keeping it at bay, but as weather conditions change and the high pressure area moves away, we’ll see more hazy sunshine that smells like smoke.
It makes you wonder why environmental protesters are not confronting the Canadian government telling them to get the fires under control to save the forests and clean the air, but they’re mysteriously missing.
We’ll keep an eye on this, but I thought you might like to see the extent of those fires. You can form your own conclusions about their origins.
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Val Crofoot says
Maybe those who deny climate change find it easy to blame our FRIENDS, the Canadians but we are all responsible for the ill effects of said change.