Woke up this morning and the air is filled with smoke. Fort Mac in my province is already on evacuation alerts, and a few communities surrounding have been evacuated already. Fort Nelson in BC is being evacuated because of a fire that went underground over the winter and is already out of control. Sarcastic yay! Already have a headache from the smoke.
Not that I think that this actually deserves a response, but most fires are started by humans. Not usually deliberately for some stupid conspiracy theory that you might have.
The real issue here is that we had a horrible wildfire season last year, and because of really mild winters that weren't that cold, with not a lot of snow, there were 52 underground wildfires in Alberta this winter that were still burning from last summer, and over 100 in BC. So regardless of what you think about climate change, we are seeing it here and feeling it.
It wouldn't surprise me either honestly, but out of the almost 900 wildfires that we have had already in 2024 in Canada, I'm going to guess that most of them were not started to prove a point.
We occasionally get real bad smoke here in Reno from California wildfires. Not climate change but stupid, ignorant forest management policies. It's natural to let everything grow out and burn itself up, don't you know.