Welcome to Colleen’s Corner. This is a column meant for fun and some information About myself: I am a Freelance Photographer you often see me on the side of the road or in various places taking photos of different things animals, birds, places, people etc. l have lived in Lumby for over 18 years, you have seen my photos in the newspaper (Lumby Valley Times) and once in awhile in the Vernon Morning Star, and the Lumby Art Gallery. Photography is my passion. Disclaimer: The information on some of my photos that I write about a lot of times come from the Internet or books I research them, hopefully the facts are as close to the truth as I can come.
By Colleen Fielding
Wow! Did you see the moon the other night? It was bright orange from all the smoke that had been surrounding us for days.
How, the world is now turning, BC is not the only one on fire anymore.
Ontario has been fighting more fires than ever before according to recorded history.
Manitoba is once again on the list for wildfires.
The Northwest Territories have 190 out of control fires so far.
There are out of control fires all across the world right now;
France, Spain, West Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Central America, Indonesia, Australia, Southern Africa.
Don’t forget that the idiot orange man across the border is trying to put more tariffs on us because our smoke is going over to the states, but what that very stupid man forgot to mention is that there are parts of the US that are also have out of control fires; California, and Oregon their smoke is entering Canada and we are not telling them to pay us for it. What he also fails to mention is that Canadians always lend them a helping hand without a big charge against them. Every time that jerk opens his mouth there should be a tariff placed on him. Someone please put him under the 25th Amendment before he causes more damage to the whole world.
The global wildfires that are happening right now are listed in this order with human related fires (intentional, or unintentional) being:
- Campfires, sparks from machinery, power lines, arson, fires that escape while doing slash burning, military activity.
- Lightning
- Climate Change, this can increase dry lightning causing ignition. With hotter temperatures we have longer droughts, the humidity is lower, there is more dead vegetation, we have had earlier snow melts which creates longer fire seasons, and the winds have increased immensely in most regions.
Although Climate Change is not the cause of all of every fire as it’s not really the match, it is the gasoline that when lit will eventually be out of control. Climate Change makes all the fires more intense and widespread, creating problems controlling the fires no matter where you live.
