Today I checked it the snow pack on Cypress. We have a week of sunshine in the forecast and the snow pack is melting fast but that's pretty normal for this time of year. We had an El Niño last winter and will have a La Niña next winter. So the sky hasn't fallen and the El Niño / La Niña cycle has nothing to do with climate change. The sensationalized fake news was going on about how the low snow pack will cause more forest fires this summer. I don't notice an abnormally low snow pack right now. If it melts a week before it did last year that will be insignificant.
While we're here, lets calmly and rationally talk about the obvious dangers of preignitions. Let's discuss the theory behind them and why that is so obviously problematic. Say we have a forest fire burning. The wind is blowing south so the fire is moving south. In that situation we want to light a pre ignition south of the fire so when the fire gets there it will run out of fuel. That sounds good but it is inherently problematic for obvious reasons.
The fire is moving south because the wind is blowing south. If you light a fire south of the existing fire why on earth would you expect the fire you start to move north towards the fire when the wind is blowing south? It won't. The existing fire will run out of fuel but you just started a new fire so you accomplished nothing. You simple made it worse which is exactly what we saw in Kelowna last year. They lit fires trying to stop the fire but they simply made it worse much worse.
So we are now forced to question whether or not it was their intent to make the fire worse since we are on a new campaign of lighting forest fires and have stopped fighting them with water bombers. We expect a guy with a shovel will somehow do a better job than a water bomber. That's ridiculous. It's a scam. They are intentionally destroying our province. So now we have to ask why? Kelowna is a conservative riding. Did the NDP intentionally try to burn them out?
What about Lytton? Kelowna is on a lake. There is no reason that fire should have got that close to the town. They can fill water bombers up on the lake but they refuse to do so. That is a criminal act. Just like starting new fires is. The Maui fire was suspicious from the get go but as more abnormalities began to surface that was clearly a criminal act. They shut the water off so residents couldn't keep fighting the fire. They prevented people from evacuating and rerouted them back into the fire where they died waiting in line stuck in traffic.
And then there was Chile and the pattern has been revealed. What happened to tree planting?
I think the part about a person with a shovel is going to do more than a water bomer is part of the conspiracy. Let's analyze my theory that they are simply dog dumb from hiring unintelligent ignorant arrogant people all these years. They hire absolute losers so that all their friends can have jobs qualified or not. And all these people care more about things like looking good socially and social stature than principles and work quality. Else there is something deeper and evil going on.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is, the arrogant idiots are the ones in charge. We're going to use helicopters with buckets because they're more precise. Why because someone they know gets the contract. More water is more effective at fighting fires.
DeleteThen the pencil necks say pre ignitions are the way of the future. Like Rna? Future of what? Burning the entire province to the ground and completely destroying the forestry industry? That stupidity is part of a bigger agenda.
Check out operating costs of fixed wing per hour vs. rotary wing. The costs for a fixed wing water bomber are probably steeper than smaller planes, but look at the usable load vs what the helicopters they are using can carry. Pinpoint capability is for mop-up and small stuff, not large fires.
ReplyDeleteThe large water bombers are much more bang for the buck.
DeleteI talked to a man who was born and raised in northern BC. He said they used to have local community members who were employed as fire fighting crews in place before the season began. Now they have contractors coming in to fight the fire. That is my 2 cents. I personally know a lot of men in the north who would enjoy the job and the extra income.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point. We used to use volunteers now volunteers are arrested. The NDP is more interested in evacuation orders than fighting fires.
DeleteAgreed, except the NDP are more interested in whing about Climate change! lol!
DeleteAnd that brings us back to fake environmentalism. All these forest fires they light and refuse to fight create a lot more CO2 emissions than all the cars here do. We all saw how uncontrolled forest fires directly effects air quality. If they really did care about CO2 emissions they would fight forest fires not light them.
DeleteThey are interested in control, however they obtain it and whatever nonsense they have to pretend is real to do it. Nothing else.
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