Steward: Why can’t conservative politicians and big oil talk about climate change? via torontostar
What will it take for conservative politicians and big oil bosses to actually acknowledge that the wildfires ravaging our forests are fanned by the carbon emissions that have torqued up the world’s climate?
“Entire neighbourhoods burned to their foundations beneath a towering pyrocumulus cloud typically found over erupting volcanoes. So huge and energetic was this fire-driven weather system that it generated hurricane force winds and lightning that ignited still more fires many miles away. Nearly 100,000 people were forced to flee in what remains the largest, most rapid single-day evacuation in the history of modern fire,” Vaillant writes.
She also dismissed the significance of the wildfires when she said, “Alberta has always had forest fires.” The phrases “climate change or “global warming” did not cross her lips as she underwent tough questioning on an Edmonton radio talk show.was set to announce the repeal of Alberta’s carbon tax at an Edmonton gas station. But the city was enveloped in so much forest fire smoke the event had to be called off.
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