I remember a few decades ago they blamed the Mountain Pine Beetle investation & essentially destruction of the entire forestry industry in British Columbia on "Climate Change".
The meta was that since Global Warming stopped having cold spells of minus 40 Celsius for weeks on end every winter in Northern BC, the Mountain Pine Beetle larvae could no longer be killed, so the entire province became a tinderbox.
YEs, that was not long after BC changed it's fire prevention policies. Now they left dead trees standing & stopped cutting firebreaks. Those were 2 things that those beetles didn't like, so they exploded.
Before WW2 small fires would go through forests every 10-15 years, burning up the underbrush & dead trees. Big trees survived them, in fact some require fires to seed! Now they've had 20-30 years of accumulation which causes huge, very hot fires that burn everything.
I am worried instead of -30, it will be -28 during winter.
I remember a few decades ago they blamed the Mountain Pine Beetle investation & essentially destruction of the entire forestry industry in British Columbia on "Climate Change".
The meta was that since Global Warming stopped having cold spells of minus 40 Celsius for weeks on end every winter in Northern BC, the Mountain Pine Beetle larvae could no longer be killed, so the entire province became a tinderbox.
YEs, that was not long after BC changed it's fire prevention policies. Now they left dead trees standing & stopped cutting firebreaks. Those were 2 things that those beetles didn't like, so they exploded.
Before WW2 small fires would go through forests every 10-15 years, burning up the underbrush & dead trees. Big trees survived them, in fact some require fires to seed! Now they've had 20-30 years of accumulation which causes huge, very hot fires that burn everything.