Congress members send a letter asking Canada to control the weather

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Anonymous wrote:Umm, controlling fires and forest management is not the same as controlling the weather.

Do liberals know how to read?

They know how to read, but the problem is that they are amazing at logical fallacies and poster children for the Dunning-Kruger effect.

The combination brings us DCUM democrats.

OMG, you people are such bad faith dimwits. Who ties your shoes for you? Nobody said the letter literally comes out and asks Canada to control the weather. The title of the thread is an ironic joke highlighting the impossibility of this demand, as in “they’re asking for the moon”. When they demand that Canada stop its forest fires, the only way Canada can do that is by altering the weather conditions, because they are the actual root cause. The letter writers leave that out because they don’t understand, or care, enough to do any real research.

The letter is dumb, but asking Canada to better manage its forests is not asking it to change the weather. Forest management is a science and Canada is not practicing it well, if at all.

And, ahem, the OP said "Congress members send a letter asking Canada to control the weather." I take her word that she actually believes this is what the letter said.

Canada has 367 million hectares of forest. That's over 900 million acres. So go ahead and science us. What's the plan?

"Get raking, Canada!"

-MAGA dimwits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Umm, controlling fires and forest management is not the same as controlling the weather.

Do liberals know how to read?

They know how to read, but the problem is that they are amazing at logical fallacies and poster children for the Dunning-Kruger effect.

The combination brings us DCUM democrats.

And if anyone mentions controlling floods so as not to kill innocent children, I bet you'd whine that this isn't the right time. It's never the right time to point out that the US can't control it's own wildfires and flash floods, isn't it?

Terminal hypocrite.

The weather itself cannot be controlled.

No but we can make it less extreme by dialing back on all of the things we are doing that are driving climate change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the tone deafness of the wildfire smoke making it difficult to “enjoy time outdoors…creating new memories” for their constituents, as if ruining a barbecue thousands of miles to the south is the worst thing about the fires, and not the loss of lives and property damage.

“Can you keep the screaming down? I’m trying to nap”, as your neighbor is being murdered.

And what exactly are they supposed to do about arson? Put game cameras on every tree?

This. I just spent some time in Jasper and saw firsthand how devastating the wildfires were for their livelihood, and realized that it will be decades before they get back to what they had been. If only they’d known those fires were an inconvenience to American cookouts…

[Anonymous]

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Congress members send a letter asking Canada to control the weather.

MTG gonna be big mad!

Better build that golden dome to protect America's air.

https://tiffany.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/tiffany.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/canadian_wildfire_smoke_letter.pdf

Please quote the section of the letter asking Canada to "control the weather."
Threads like this are why some of us think that the DCUM liberal crowd really isn't that smart.
If you read the letter, and still believe your title of the thread, you are not very smart.
If you didn't read the letter, you are ignorant.
And, if you read the letter and know that the title of your thread is FOS you are a troll.
None of these reflect well on you, OP.

The wildfires are being caused by extreme WEATHER conditions. Drought and warmer temperatures -> ideal conditions for wildfires. Lack of precipitation and heat are part of the WEATHER. Canada does not have any control over the WEATHER. Cause and effect.

I love it when conservatives preen that they’re so much smarter than liberals, and then basic concepts have to be explained to them using small words.

Nowhere did they ask Canada to control the weather. They clearly are asking for better forest management.

Indeed like TX should have better flood management.

[Anonymous]

However, the United States saw more forest area burned by wildfires compared to Canada in every year between 2012 and 2022, despite the U.S. having a smaller amount of forest than Canada (304 million hectares vs. 367 million hectares).

Area burned by wildfires 2012 to 2025


The current data shows wildfires have burned more forest land in the U.S. compared to Canada so far this year. That includes northeastern Minnesota, which Rep. Pete Stauber represents and which experienced a series of wildfires in May.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/manitoba-premier-hits-back-after-minnesota-republicans-complain-wildfires-are-spoiling-summer

[Anonymous]

I drove a couple hundred miles with my dad and a friend through southern Manitoba and Ontario years ago. We weren't even that far north of the border, but there was a single town on that entire drive through the forest (ending up in Thunder Bay).

I was near Boundary Waters in I think 2021 when both Canada and northern MN had ongoing wildfires. Forest management really DOES include allowing fires to burn when homes and towns are not threatened. We have learned that being to eager to stop fires is a factor in how bad they are today. That and climate change. And as a lower population state (slightly higher per cap CO2 footprint but it gets damned cold in Yellowknife) we're affecting the actual climate 10 times what they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I drove a couple hundred miles with my dad and a friend through southern Manitoba and Ontario years ago. We weren't even that far north of the border, but there was a single town on that entire drive through the forest (ending up in Thunder Bay).

I was near Boundary Waters in I think 2021 when both Canada and northern MN had ongoing wildfires. Forest management really DOES include allowing fires to burn when homes and towns are not threatened. We have learned that being to eager to stop fires is a factor in how bad they are today. That and climate change. And as a lower population state (slightly higher per cap CO2 footprint but it gets damned cold in Yellowknife) we're affecting the actual climate 10 times what they are.

Thank you for this perspective, and the cross-border cooperation between Canada and the US in these matters. We have always had friendly and productive relations with cross-border issues until now. We still love our American colleagues and friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who are the idiots who sent this letter? It’s like something out of the Onion.

Have they tried asking themselves WHY Canada is experiencing warmer temperatures, higher winds, and more severe droughts lately?

Ugh. Sorry, Canada. One embarrassing situation after another.

[Anonymous]

Haaa!

“Canada has been a friendly neighbor of the United States”

Technically true of course since carefully worded and the opposite cannot be said! How embarassing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Congress members send a letter asking Canada to control the weather.

MTG gonna be big mad!

Better build that golden dome to protect America's air.

https://tiffany.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/tiffany.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/canadian_wildfire_smoke_letter.pdf

Please quote the section of the letter asking Canada to "control the weather."
Threads like this are why some of us think that the DCUM liberal crowd really isn't that smart.
If you read the letter, and still believe your title of the thread, you are not very smart.
If you didn't read the letter, you are ignorant.
And, if you read the letter and know that the title of your thread is FOS you are a troll.
None of these reflect well on you, OP.

New poster. Not sure where your indignance comes from. The letter is embarrassingly absurd. If the Canadians are not already doing everything they can do to control the wildfire, do you think they will be inclined to do more because the smoke is affecting outdoor leisure activities in the US?! The letter is beyond tone-deaf. It sounds like a seventh grader wrote it. A not very clever seventh grader.