Saturday, May 26, 2012

Forest Fires on Rampage in Northern Ontario - is This Climate Change?

Winnipeg Free Press 
Timmons under state of emergency.
Full story here.

2 comments:

PLT said...

Isn't this early in the season for such serious fires? Could this be climate change?

Amie du Richelieu said...

I woke up soon after 1AM this morning, feeling queezy and with a terrible sinus headache. I finally was able to fall back asleep just before 3AM after taking aspirin. This morning, I hear firefighters from Alberta are in Quebec helping to fight forest fires up north. And guess what? The wind is NWN in the Richelieu Valley! All morning, it smells like spruce smoke outside and my eyes burn.

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