A plume of Canadian wildfire smoke has come south again, and has been afflicting cities as far south as Saint Louis in the middle of the United States. Many of these fires have been occurring in Ontario, which was spared the earlier fires. The southern ones have been handled well, apparently, by the fire fighters, but in northern areas, to some degree in uninhabited taiga, hard-to-reach fires are burning out of control.
The first thing investigators do, in the case of such fires, is to determine what caused each fire to start. Oddly, the media has no interest in how fires started. They already have their answer: Global Warming; AKA Climate Change.
The Canadian media then proceeded to the next step, which is to figure out how to hush the people who want to investigate how the fires actually started, and why there are so many, and why they are apparently hotter-burning. Formerly such investigation was done by the press, but now the media increasingly are but paid spokespeople. Of who? I surmise this: Of powers who like to remain in the background.
In any case, the Canadian media produced a remarkable news show, telling the Canadian Public how they were to handle “disinformation” about the cause of wildfires. And for an “authority” they had the audacity to invite Michael Mann on as a so-called expert.
In case you don’t know, Michael Mann created the “hockey stick” graph which climate Alarmists loved and which some Alarmists use to this day, but which swiftly, years ago, was proven to have been created from incomplete data, and at times the data from a single tree, and to have ignored much other data. The science behind the “hockey stick” was so atrocious not even the IPCC would use the graph in its next report.
Canadians should dislike Mann for this alone. Think of it: He gave hockey sticks a bad name!
Meanwhile Canada produced an older and wiser scientist by the name of Dr. Tim Ball. He studied geology geography, but became interested in the recent past, and what eventually was called “historical climatology”. He had a Canadian’s concern regarding how geology geography wipes Canada off the map, in an ice age, and did a very careful and meticulous study of the northern part of Canada, which formerly was called Rupert’s Land. He examined every record he could find, including the records of the Hudson Bay Company going back centuries. He spent twenty-five years at the University of Winnipeg, honing his expertise, and was such a wealth of information that he in some ways represents an opposite to Michael Mann, who could be so flippant as to base his research on a single tree. Perhaps it was inevitable they eventually collided.
Dr. Tim Ball saw problems with the “hockey stick” right away, and right away he was slandered as being a “denier”. Michael Mann was notorious for his hot-headed slander, and said things about how he was a “climatologist” while Dr. Ball was only a “geographer.” Dr. Ball’s repartee was that, in terms of telling the truth, Michael Mann should not be in Penn State but should be in the State Pen.
Michael Mann clutched his bosom and staggered about with the back of one hand on his forehead, so devastated by Tim’s comment that the only recourse possible was to silence the Canadian with the crushing expense of “Lawfare”. The fatcat American, with copious funds coming from mysterious sources, conducted a prolonged lawsuit against a Canadian with limited funds. And the result was?
Dr. Tim Ball kicked Michael Mann’s butt.
Think of that, as this sad specimen of a scientist appears on Canadian TV to explain to Canadians why they shouldn’t wonder how so many fires got set all at once, for such inquiring is “disinformation”, because “the science is settled”, and we already know what set the fires: Global Warming, AKA Climate Change.
Don’t be scared to watch this. Initially I gritted my teeth and did not want to watch at all, but, if you know even a little about the various causes of wildfires, and what makes some worse than others, Michael Mann comes across as such a complete goober it is as if you dreaded a lion and instead faced a kitten (or perhaps a toothless rat.)
As is becoming all to common, the media is failing to inquire in the manner the press is suppose to inquire. The papers and networks are bankrupt, and sell their souls to the highest bidder. The owners are so poor they can barely afford their private jets, and have no extra money left to pay a reporter to go out to the fires and be “on the scene”. Therefore, as I tried to investigate the recent smoke using the media, I kept noticing ways they save money. (For example, to show a smokey city on June 27 Yahoo used a photograph from June 8.)
Don’t get me wrong. I know it is uncomfortable to put up with such smog, though it will all be rinsed away by the blooming thundershowers of the next weather pattern, over the next three days. I myself ruined my lungs with cigarettes, and don’t like days when air quality is low. However that has nothing to do with what is actually causing the air quality to be low; IE: What started the fires?
There is something sublimely pathetic about blaming Global Warming for the fires. It defies the common sense that knows that in the past forests have survived prolonged droughts without burning down, because no fires were started. Something started the fires, even if drought made the situation ripe forconflagration. Can’t we focus our minds, and blame Mrs. O’leary’s Cow?
Apparently modern reporters are more interested in parroting the propaganda of whoever it is who is paying for the bilge they produce, than in using the gray matter God gifted them with between their ears. Some of the stuff written indicates a failure to utilize even the most basic research. I read one report suggesting we should wear masks again to avoid breathing poisonous particles “such as carbon monoxide”. Where was the editor? Anyone with a slight education knows carbon monoxide is a gas, and can’t be stopped by a mask.
Apparently one plume of smoke avoided being washed down to earth, and made it across the Atlantic to Europe, and there the story is the same. “Global warming has caused this terrible event.”
No, wildfires caused this event. And what caused those fires to start?
Until we know what started the fires, any conspiracy theory is alive and well. Did the Chinese float over another balloon, shooting down laser beams? Did Globalist billionaires hire float planes with arsonists to light fires by northern lakes?
Well, let’s go look. Let’s see if the fires only started by lakes which float planes can reach. Or did they start in odd places where lightning is unlikely to strike, far from where cars or float planes can reach, but, at the site the fire started, rock was strangely melted, as if by a laser beam. What’s the harm of looking?
I confess I personally suspect arson is involved. Why?
Well, first, we had a bad drought here last summer. Look back a year in my posts and you’ll see I was worried. But, thank God, no fire got going on a windy day. This proves that Global Warming AKA Climate Change doesn’t incinerate the suburbs of Boston. Why should it prefer Canada?
Second, innocent people do not go to great lengths to keep you from looking at where the fires started.
Third, in the past there have been equally dry and hot northern springs and summers, but not so many fires. What is causing more to spring up?
Fourth, the powers funding the parrot media, and the parrot scientists such as Michael Mann, have been all too willing to resort to falsehood in the past, in order to make their master’s desire appear like it is inevitable, (and therefore the Truth, when it is not the Truth.) Therefore it has become difficult, if not impossible, to trust the parrots at all. They seem capable of disgusting duplicity. Therefore I do not put it past them to go so far as to start all these fires, hoping to scare the public into believing Global Warming is a real threat.
Hopefully I’m wrong, but until the fires are investigated, (and the government has the guts to release the investigation’s results), how can I know if I am wrong?
What say you?
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