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[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Climate change.

Canada’s boreal forest is far north.

Most parts of it only reach 64F (18C) averages in the heat of the summer.

Its density and climate also means it gets very little evaporation compared to its rainfall, and is subject to frost 9 months of the year, and heavy fog the rest of the time.

This kept this biome very humid, kept soil damp, and left most of the low level foliage coated in dew all day long.

Some parts of the forest even had thick levels of permafrost beneath the topsoil that on rare hot days would seep water back into the ecosystem.

Just as many wildfires started by lightning strike in previous decades as now.

The difference is they struggled to catch and spread in this damp environment.

Now extreme dry weather, record breaking heat, northern thaw, erode that protective moisture barrier, leaving the boreal forest vulnerable especially in the more southern parts.

Boreal forests previously went through this process naturally when an over density caused a drier environment you’d get high-intensity crown fires that were cyclical. Every 50-200 years depending on region.

Now we get them annually.

Boreal forest fires are much more severe than others too. The long history of cyclical burns means the soil contains charcoal, the thick multi-layer foliage adds fodder and causes the fire to spread quickly, and pine, spruce, and aspens are all some of the trees with both the most density and the best for wood burning.

It results in towering forest fires of immense heat and rapid spread.

These forests are denser than anything else in North America or Europe, and the current fire in Ontario alone, is the same square mileage as the entire state of Delaware.

From the time it ignited, to covering that size, took less than 20 hours.

While some in the US still think climate change is a hoax, we are all going to deal with the consequences of it, as we’ve turned the largest forest in the world into a tinder box, and fires in less than 0.01% of it drowns the entire continent in smoke.

[Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox]

First sentence: oh that’s not particularly newsworthy…

Second sentence: I’m sending this story to every one I know

[🇨🇦 Henri A 🇨🇦 @HenriAGS]

The U.S. signed a deal on CUSMA
They didn't honour it

The U.S. signed a deal on a bridge
They didn't honour it

The U.S. signed the Budapest Memorandum
They didn't honour it

The list of worthless deals and broken promises that the U.S. makes is long. Their word is worth nothing

[Oh Canaduh @CanaduhOh]

CN train crew casually rolling through literal HELL in Northern Ontario and handling it in the most Canadian way possible: “that’s a meat and a half eh?”

[Weather Monitor @WeatherMonitors]

An apocalyptic scene unfolded on Highway 11 in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, this evening as the sky turned deep red and nearly black.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

Toronto now on top of the major city world rankings for worst air quality. Considering skipping that morning run today.

[Alina Cameron 🇨🇦 💉 🔬 @Alina_Cameron]

I live in Northwestern Ontario. Right now, the Boreal forest is burning.

I'm writing this beneath the dark orange plume from the Quetico wildfires.

These are some of the reports coming out as communities fight to survive:

"No fire crews left for new fires."
"We had no warning."
Families are self-evacuating by private boat across lakes because they didn't receive evacuation information. They're fleeing towering flames with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

This is unacceptable in a province as wealthy as Ontario.

I'm calling out Doug Ford. His government has underfunded Ontario's wildfire management capacity by tens of millions of dollars.

@fordnation you want our Ring of Fire, our water, our forests. You want to store nuclear waste in our bedrock and run an oil pipeline through our watersheds.

But you won't work with northern communities. You make decisions for us without us, and then fail to provide the basic public services we PAY FOR and rely on: wildfire protection, health care, education, safe highways and social services.

Northern Ontario deserves better than this feckless leadership.

#onpoli #onted #70KIsNotOK #cdnpolitics #DontLookAwayOntario #ABC

[Michael Gerald Gibbs🏳️‍🌈🍁 🇺🇦 (He/Him) @Mikeggibbs]

It's been 9 months since Dad died.

And there's a couple things I want to say about his care that I think applies to many people.

Dad was a guinea pig for cancer research at Princess Margaret for almost 40 years. Every experimental treatment, experimental chemo, he took as requested.

He never once denied a request to be used for cancer research. It took a lot out of him. I even escorted him on some visits to Princess Margaret for checks and treatment so I saw it up close.

He had a full cancer team who monitored him for their various research projects.

Dad gave back so much of himself.

The thing is, that careful care and attention disappeared as soon as Dad's condition started heading toward death. It was a long painful torturous journey. He suffered in pain, horribly, right up to the end, with no palliative care drugs whatsoever. That was horrorendous unnecessary lapse.

No one among his team of doctors wanted to take responsibility for the last stage of his life, after taking so much from him for so long.

Then Dad died. No phone call. No note of sympathy from anyone on his cancer team. No one even attended his memorial.

If I thought this was an uncommon oversight, I would have kept my hurt feelings about it, quiet.

But I don't think it is.

It reflects an enduring problem in the medical profession of lacking compassion or bed-side manner.

I hope some doctors and cancer researchers see this note, and it gives them some reflection.

Thank you.

[netty @NettyGurl]

@Turbinetraveler @KieranHorn If secure why evacuate and cause injuries

[netty @NettyGurl]

@BlameCanucks @TartanArmyGroup The Scottish musicians had NS’s Buddy McMaster help them restore how it’s done. Oh and no Trump to boot.

[netty @NettyGurl]

@BlameCanucks @TartanArmyGroup https://t.co/O0oZaEXFm1

[netty @NettyGurl]

@steeleauto How do I contact you directly please

[netty @NettyGurl]

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[netty @NettyGurl]

Here they come Nova Scotia #novascotia #halifax

[netty @NettyGurl]

Halifax Airport fun and games #halifax #novascotia

[Tom Callow @au_tom_otive]

Local big Tesco has almost no chillers working. Nearest M&S is the same. Most of their freezers have also packed in. No meat, no milk, no fresh juices, no cheese, no yoghurt, no ice cream…

[Mark Robinson @StormhunterTWN]

This is having a big effect on Ontario forecasting as well

[netty @NettyGurl]

@yulaeroport women’s BR facing DomSec - door locks don’t work due finishing work - if you force it you get locked inside 😝

[netty @NettyGurl]

@Uber_Support how long is this new pickup location going to be used at Montreal airport?