You reminded about this, thanks. I kept one constantly during wildfire seasons in California but I haven't had too since I moved back - but it wouldn't kill me to have one at the ready to avoid the mad rush.
You canucks WISH they could be blessed with sacred ash from the motherland of America!
The guy he is asking to be vocal was plenty vocal in the states as well for the massively incomplete mitigation projects that have been funded in full.
Buggy Loop
. Let's do it again sometime.
https://ca.usembassy.gov/statement-...hoekstra-on-the-wildfire-situation-in-canada/
Thank you. At least I know where you're coming from.You serious ?
Smoke or fire does not follow frontier delimitations. Acting like Canada is deliberately causing fires to fuck with Americans is fucking dumb. As if we control the weather and wind
Let's crawl to daddy Trump to slap tariffs on smoke while we're at it
No, this is not "raking leaves" when most of northern Canada are Conifers and in the middle of fucking nowhere with barely any peoples living there.
You're as stupid as you sound!
I guess I should probably buy one, too, if Toronto's gonna become another Hong Kong in July. I think I only have leftover surgical masks, which are apparently useless against smoke
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"The claim is that Canada is neglegting the things it can and should control - thinning, fuel reduction, prescribed burns, etc."
And that is done of course every fucking years, but do you have any concept of the scale?
And what is Canada's mere 41M peoples population map?
Oh so the complete opposite of the boreal forest. To the surprise of no one.
Canada's boreal forest is the largest remaining intact forest ecosystem on Earth. Thinning that? There's no fucking road infrastructures. It's some of the most remote places on the planet. Even with the resources, how much thinning? It's the fucking lungs of the earth, It's the largest terrestrial carbon sink, it stores twice as much carbon per acre as tropical rainforests. You're incommoded with a slight orange tint in the sky and you want to put the axe in the lungs?
Fucking hell I guess UK has figured it all out uh? Chop everything down in the past hundreds years and have shrubs.
Canada does thinning yearly near populated areas and strategic areas. The conspirationists even took a photo of such thinning and thought that Canada was setting fire to the forests uncontrollably
You can't realistically do much to thin the boreal forest, not at that kind of scale. USA cannot even do it with 300M+ more population and smaller forest areas. The entire population of Canada is roughly California's.
There will always be wildfires, lightning strikes (not PG&E power lines). Now the arctic is warming up faster than anywhere else on the planet.
Maybe we should remove as many cubic tons of potash exports to US farmers as the orange man wants to add to coal burning yearly. Get your shit together after all, you're top 3 responsible for this shift in temperatures, and in your own state up North too.
As for how well you're doing of a job :
And you beat us again at something! "wHy aRn'T yOu tHinNiNG?"
Threatening indexation because you'll have a temporary inconvenience while the USA has never demonstrated you can manage your own fucking shit? lol. Unhinged.
When we got smoked by USA's wildfires, we sent water bombers and firefighters to help.
"The claim is that Canada is neglegting the things it can and should control - thinning, fuel reduction, prescribed burns, etc."
And that is done of course every fucking years, but do you have any concept of the scale?
And what is Canada's mere 41M peoples population map?
Oh so the complete opposite of the boreal forest. To the surprise of no one.
Canada's boreal forest is the largest remaining intact forest ecosystem on Earth. Thinning that? There's no fucking road infrastructures. It's some of the most remote places on the planet. Even with the resources, how much thinning? It's the fucking lungs of the earth, It's the largest terrestrial carbon sink, it stores twice as much carbon per acre as tropical rainforests. You're incommoded with a slight orange tint in the sky and you want to put the axe in the lungs?
Fucking hell I guess UK has figured it all out uh? Chop everything down in the past hundreds years and have shrubs.
Canada does thinning yearly near populated areas and strategic areas. The conspirationists even took a photo of such thinning and thought that Canada was setting fire to the forests uncontrollably
You can't realistically do much to thin the boreal forest, not at that kind of scale. USA cannot even do it with 300M+ more population and smaller forest areas. The entire population of Canada is roughly California's.
There will always be wildfires, lightning strikes (not PG&E power lines). Now the arctic is warming up faster than anywhere else on the planet.
Maybe we should remove as many cubic tons of potash exports to US farmers as the orange man wants to add to coal burning yearly. Get your shit together after all, you're top 3 responsible for this shift in temperatures, and in your own state up North too.
As for how well you're doing of a job :
And you beat us again at something! "wHy aRn'T yOu tHinNiNG?"
Threatening indexation because you'll have a temporary inconvenience while the USA has never demonstrated you can manage your own fucking shit? lol. Unhinged.
When we got smoked by USA's wildfires, we sent water bombers and firefighters to help.
I agree with the first comment. Only on Bluesky would that not be enough for people lol. If you say something in a way that could be interpreted as you implyiing something it definitely 100% of the time means you're implying it /s
Thanks for most of the info. It looks like most of the fires are in remote areas. It seems like we will be dealing with major smoke from the yearly Canadian wildfires probably for the rest of my life. can't say I will be looking forward to that."The claim is that Canada is neglegting the things it can and should control - thinning, fuel reduction, prescribed burns, etc."
And that is done of course every fucking years, but do you have any concept of the scale?
And what is Canada's mere 41M peoples population map?
Oh so the complete opposite of the boreal forest. To the surprise of no one.
Canada's boreal forest is the largest remaining intact forest ecosystem on Earth. Thinning that? There's no fucking road infrastructures. It's some of the most remote places on the planet. Even with the resources, how much thinning? It's the fucking lungs of the earth, It's the largest terrestrial carbon sink, it stores twice as much carbon per acre as tropical rainforests. You're incommoded with a slight orange tint in the sky and you want to put the axe in the lungs?
Fucking hell I guess UK has figured it all out uh? Chop everything down in the past hundreds years and have shrubs.
Canada does thinning yearly near populated areas and strategic areas. The conspirationists even took a photo of such thinning and thought that Canada was setting fire to the forests uncontrollably
You can't realistically do much to thin the boreal forest, not at that kind of scale. USA cannot even do it with 300M+ more population and smaller forest areas. The entire population of Canada is roughly California's.
There will always be wildfires, lightning strikes (not PG&E power lines). Now the arctic is warming up faster than anywhere else on the planet.
Maybe we should remove as many cubic tons of potash exports to US farmers as the orange man wants to add to coal burning yearly. Get your shit together after all, you're top 3 responsible for this shift in temperatures, and in your own state up North too.
As for how well you're doing of a job :
And you beat us again at something! "wHy aRn'T yOu tHinNiNG?"
Threateningindexationannexation because you'll have a temporary inconvenience while the USA has never demonstrated you can manage your own fucking shit? lol. Unhinged.
When we got smoked by USA's wildfires, we sent water bombers and firefighters to help.
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
Yet somehow the average number of fires has decreased, but the average area burned has more than doubled.The combination of a massive low pressure system and high-level winds is the main culprit compared to oh so many years of wildfires in the past. That kind of area burned happens every couple of years and I doubt most peoples who grew up near Canada or North-east US would say their summer was smoked every year. Right now in Quebec its blue sky which makes no sense since we're right next to Ontario and winds typically blows from the west. It's a very specific combination of events.
2023 was a record year for fires, but 1989, 1996, 2014 were the previous heavy hitters too much like 2026. It happens. 2023 surpassed US's 2020.
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Long-range Transport of 2023 Canadian Wildfire Smoke into the Northeastern United States
In summer 2023, Canada experienced its most intense wildfire season on record. Smoke from wildfires in Alberta and Quebec was transported thousands of miles, driven by favorable meteorological conditions, resulting in record-breaking poor air quality across the northeastern United States. This...
Californian wildfires was opposite when it happened. It went North.
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Northern California Fires in September 2020
This visualization shows the lightning over California on August 16 and 17, 2020 that caused 38 separate fires to ignite. These eventually combined into the August Complex fire, the first recorded gigafire in California history, which burned until November 12 consuming 1,614 square miles (4,180...
This year though US is still ahead in area burned even with Canada's massive wildfire.
| Decade | Avg. Fires/Year | Avg. Area Burned/Year (ha) | Notable Characteristics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | ~8,000 | ~2.8M ha | Highly variable; several 5–7M ha years |
| 1990s | ~7,500 | ~3.0M ha | Similar fire count; slightly higher burn area |
| 2000s | ~7,000 | ~2.0M ha | Lowest burn decade; aggressive suppression + cooler summers |
| 2010s | ~6,000 | ~2.9M ha | Large northern fires; more lightning‑driven events |
| 2020s | ~5,500 | ~7.0M ha | Extreme volatility; 2023 record 17.6M ha drives decade upward |
I mean cmon
Yet somehow the average number of fires has decreased, but the average area burned has more than doubled.
Decade Avg. Fires/Year Avg. Area Burned/Year (ha) Notable Characteristics 1980s ~8,000 ~2.8M ha Highly variable; several 5–7M ha years 1990s ~7,500 ~3.0M ha Similar fire count; slightly higher burn area 2000s ~7,000 ~2.0M ha Lowest burn decade; aggressive suppression + cooler summers 2010s ~6,000 ~2.9M ha Large northern fires; more lightning‑driven events 2020s ~5,500 ~7.0M ha Extreme volatility; 2023 record 17.6M ha drives decade upward
- 2020: 218k ha
- 2021: 4.0M ha
- 2022: 1.5M ha
- 2023: 17.6M ha (record)
- 2024: 5.3M ha
- 2025: 8.4M ha
www.theweathernetwork.com
Alberta ordered five DHC‑515 planes in February 2026 which will be delivered in 2031. These are the only water bombing planes ordered by any part of Canada over the past 20 years.Now if something, a certain phenomena, could somehow explain that bigger areas are drier, decade after decade... a certain disruption.... hmmmmmm
I guess we'll never know /s
| Year | Estimated Dedicated Water‑Bombers | Key Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 100+ | CL‑215 fleets at peak; Martin Mars active |
| 1996 | ~90 | CL‑415 introduced; CL‑215 retirements begin |
| 2006 | ~80 | Modernization continues; Mars fleet reduced |
| 2016 | ~70 | CL‑215 mostly retired; CL‑415 production ends; Mars retires |
| 2026 | ~60–70 | Aging CL‑415 fleets; DHC‑515 not yet delivered; federal leased aircraft supplement |
Alberta ordered five DHC‑515 planes in February 2026 which will be delivered in 2031. These are the only water bombing planes ordered by any part of Canada over the past 20 years.
Though Ontario just announced they were buying 11 more today..
Canada's water‑bomber fleet has shrunk significantly over the last 40 years, falling from well over 100 dedicated water‑bombing aircraft in the mid‑1980s to roughly 60–70 today, depending on the season and provincial deployments. This decline is due to retirements of older aircraft (CL‑215s, Martin Mars), slow procurement of replacements, and increased reliance on contracted/leased aircraft.
Year Estimated Dedicated Water‑Bombers Key Notes 1986 100+ CL‑215 fleets at peak; Martin Mars active 1996 ~90 CL‑415 introduced; CL‑215 retirements begin 2006 ~80 Modernization continues; Mars fleet reduced 2016 ~70 CL‑215 mostly retired; CL‑415 production ends; Mars retires 2026 ~60–70 Aging CL‑415 fleets; DHC‑515 not yet delivered; federal leased aircraft supplement
You'd have to be some kinda genius to figure out you need to expand, not shrink your fire fighting fleets with the way the climate has swung.
I wonder how all that net zero is working out to balance out the amount of CO2 put out in the last week.
| Canada | 2,781,284.4 |
| USA | 3,674,911.0 |
And those 40 years where the numbers of planes in service dropped? That should have been a number going up."nOthInG wE cAn dO" as Alberta purchased $400M worth of DHC-515 earlier this year and basically every single provinces are on the list of production.
A lot of early production slots are fully committed to European Union partners, you know, actual partners. They also bought 45 of CL-415.
Maybe Canada should rug pull all the CL-415 and CL-215 being currently leased in USA right this very moment? Yea that's a fucking good idea. Been leasing them for decades, I think we need them all actually, all summer long. I think we can all agree to that. We have to act after all ASAP. That's a very immediate and easy action.
But the funniest thing in all this, you act as if you're in any fucking position to give lessons
2026 hectares burned
Canada 2,781,284.4 USA 3,674,911.0
What are you doing about it? With +300M more peoples and way more infrastructures than Canada, what's your excuse? Go in the forest and clean. Or as your POTUS said a few years ago, open the valve, what, are you stupid or something? He gave you the solution.
You also have explosive diarrhea to take care of please.
why you want a sasquatch genocide?
God no, it will create a refugee crisis of entitled assholes who shit on everything driven into the northern states.
Not being disingenuous would be a start.Alberta ordered five DHC‑515 planes in February 2026 which will be delivered in 2031. These are the only water bombing planes ordered by any part of Canada over the past 20 years.
Though Ontario just announced they were buying 11 more today..
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We agree. The Canadians need to stop hand waving around the fact they haven't kept up with with current needs and have reduced fire prevention efforts. This is the fourth year in a row with these issues and only now are these purchases being scheduled.
| Year | Estimated % of U.S. Population Affected | Severity |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | <5% | Very low |
| 2016 | <5% | Very low |
| 2017 | 5–10% | Low |
| 2018 | 10–15% | Moderate |
| 2019 | 10–15% | Moderate |
| 2020 | 15–20% | Moderate |
| 2021 | 20–25% | Moderate–High |
| 2022 | 15–20% | Moderate |
| 2023 | >50% | Extreme |
| 2024 | <25% | Moderate |
| 2025 | ~35% | Extreme |
| 2026 | ~33% | Extreme |
Canadians should be very upset with California's failed forestry management. Just like the rest of the US is upset with Canada's.
