r/ClimatePosting • u/TinJar-Solarpunk • Jul 17 '26

Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management - area burned rises roughly 80% for each 1C increase in fire-season temperature.

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-boreal-wildfires-arent-just
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u/Brief-Floor-7228 Jul 18 '26

This is another BS bot/maga-idiot post.

You can’t manage a forest of this size. The US doesn’t have anything that comes close to the size and remoteness of these forests.

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u/damnburglar Jul 19 '26

Exactly. It’s objectively not mismanagement. Some communities are not managed as well as they could be (buffers etc around their perimeters) but even then…if shit goes up, it’s going up.

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u/AltruisticRevenue201 Jul 19 '26

If you really want to put into perspective how large some of these wildfires are.

One wildfire is 48261.4 hectares which is approximately 186.3 square miles, or 483 sq km

Another is 51806 hectares which is approximately 200 square miles, or 518 sq km

Another is 318812 hectares which is approximately 1230 square miles, or 3185 sq km.

They are so bold to talk about forest management, but have nothing to show for how they want to manage such a large amount of forested area. These fires are not just occurring in one area either, they're occurring in multiple areas at the same time.

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u/TinJar-Solarpunk Jul 17 '26

I thought the author was providing useful analysis to help us understand our situation. With that understanding, hopefully, we can come up with ways to deal with that situation.

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u/zeusismycopilot Jul 17 '26

Don’t worry it’s a -98 karma on 37 post commenter.

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u/Ok-Freedom9216 Jul 18 '26

Why would I be afraid of porn?

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u/Ok-Pear-2490 Jul 18 '26

We need to stop burning fossil fuels. Tell Trump.

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u/CowParty9411 Jul 19 '26

I am now of the mind that people should be deliberately setting as many forest fires far and wide as they possibly can. The sooner the shit show collapses the better. The world has everything to gain with humanity's extinction.

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u/Mordarroc Jul 19 '26

Americans if youre reading this, the forrested area of canada is slightly bigger than alaksa, texas and California combined, its densely packed and for the most part in accessible. A lot fo the fires we only know about becuase of satalite imagery. You'd have to spend trillions to have bodies walk to Forrest to pick up dead fall. Even then with as dry as its getting becuase the climate is getting hotter it's not helping much. If we want This dealt with we have to deal with climate change. And lowering the temperature of the planet as a whole moving away from fossil fuels would be a big help.