‘Climate change’ not to blame for Canada wildfires, say experts

Environmental experts are disputing claims by mainstream media and globalist lawmakers that Canadian wildfires, which last week turned some US states hazy, are the effects of “climate change”.

Wild forest fires in Alberta, Canada which started last month have triggered air quality warnings in northeastern states such as New York, Maryland and Philadelphia, whose skies have turned an orange hue. Northern and even some midwestern states like Wyoming have also been blanketed in a smoky haze.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul Wednesday announced the distribution of one million N95 face masks to residents as protection against the pollution while mainstream media do their part to promote mask-wearing once again.

Media outlets have also joined Democrat politicians in what appears to be a coordinated effort to blame the fires on a “climate crisis”. According to an analysis by Frontline News, every article published by legacy news corporations on the wildfires uses the phrase “climate crisis,” “climate change,” or both, echoing figures like Joe Biden, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and others.

But experts are pointing out irreconcilable flaws with the “climate change” narrative.

The Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute Director Bjørn Lomborg wrote in 2021 that since wildfires started being recorded in 1900, the worldwide acreage burned by wildfires each year is decreasing, despite the climb in carbon emissions. Even assuming that global warming is causing more fires, they are still consuming less land than ever due to expanding populations and economic development.

According to Canada’s own Canadian National Fire Database (CNFDB), the number of wildfires has been steadily declining since 1990, the first year of record. 

Author and environmentalist Jim Steele, who previously served as San Francisco State University’s Sierra Nevada Field Campus director, slammed the media’s “climate change” narrative.

“I do not feel the media is educating us about the science that affects fires. They're just trying to push a catastrophe narrative that's been going on way too long,” Steele told Cowboy State Daily. 

Steele says that fires were even more extensive in the 17th and 18th centuries when the world’s climate was cooler, pouring cold water on theories that Canada’s wildfires are caused by global warming.

Instead, Steele attributes the ferocious fires to Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a long-term temperature fluctuation of the Pacific Ocean over 20–30-year periods. During negative phases of this natural phenomenon, many parts of the US see drier climates than usual, which directly correlates to forest fires.

Another contributor to the wildfires, adds Steele, is, ironically, fire suppression. Forest management tactics allow dead trees, grasses and fuels to accumulate, which causes fires to burn hotter and longer.

“I don't think there's enough evidence whatsoever to say a CO2 effect has emerged from the data,” Steele said. 

University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences Professor Cliff Mass also notes that forest fires in Canada are on the decline. The largest fires occurred in the 1980s, and Mass says May is primetime for forest fires.

“There is no evidence that such a pattern is the result of climate change,” wrote Mass on his blog.

Others, including Canadian politicians, are pointing to the fact that the very real possibility of arson is being ignored.

“Several arsonists have been arrested in the past weeks in different provinces for lighting forest fires,” People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier tweeted Wednesday. “But the lying woke media and politicians keep repeating that global warming is the cause.” 

In April, Alberta resident John Cook was arrested and charged with 10 counts of arson after allegedly starting wildfires around Cold Lake. Royal Canadian Mounties Police (RCMP) have been arresting wildfire arsonists across Nova Scotia, Yukon, British Columbia, and Alberta, according to LifesiteNews.

The arson, furthermore, is not a particularly new phenomenon. In 2021, 54-year-old Albertan Audrey Elaine Dunham was charged with 32 counts of arson after allegedly igniting several wildfires.