Not unexpectedly, the Washington Post headline, “Unprecedented’ Canadian fires intensified by record heat, climate change,” is a lie. The truth is, that the wildfires in Canada are neither unprecedented nor the result of climate change. The fires, which are now hanging smoke over large parts of their US neighbor, are the result both of malign neglect, and of opposition by Greenpeace and other greens to the proper management of forests, called “prescribed burning.”
In prehistoric times, man had learned that you need to do what is now called “prescribed burning” – or the burning of the leaves, branches, and underbrush, when the weather and wind is right, before they accumulate in large amounts. That way, the burn will get rid of the flammable material without getting hot enough to set the large trees on fire.
