So what the f*ck did you want him to say? That the fire is a direct result of Alberta's oil industry and ONLY Alberta's oil industry? Is THAT what you wanted to hear?Yes thank you for finally catching up with the whole premise of the thread.
Of course.
It's a combination of factors which includes El Nino for this year, climate change, dry trees, crazy wind and obviously the guy that started it.
Because he didn't want to be ridiculed and laughed out of the room
Here's where I have a big problem.... Fire extinguishers are filled to the brim with dangerous CO2.
Wonder if Cliffy will be declaring that this is some form of karmic retribution for those folks
It's like she took the words right out of my mouth.
'Of course' Fort McMurray fire linked to climate change, Elizabeth May says
The leader of Canada's Green Party said Wednesday climate change was partly to blame for the wildfire devastating Fort McMurray, Alta., touching off a debate about whether it was the right time to discuss the causes of the conflagration.
"Of course," Elizabeth May said Wednesday when asked if there was anything about the fire that is linked to global warming. "The temperature records were being smashed through last month for northern Alberta," she said, while noting that no single event is caused by climate change alone. "It's due to global emissions.
"Scientists will say we know with a destabilized climate, with a higher average global temperature, we will see more frequent, more extreme weather events ... due to an erratic climate, due to our addiction to fossil fuels."
Later, in a statement sent to reporters, May said she wasn't directly tying the Fort McMurray wildfire to climate change. "No credible climate scientist would make this claim, and neither do I make this claim," she said, while urging Canadians to take collective action to mitigate the impact of "extreme climate events."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declined to make a direct link between the fire — which has forced some 80,000 people out of their homes — and climate change, at least while the embers are still burning.
"It's well-known that one of the consequences of climate change will be a greater prevalence of extreme weather events around the planet, however any time we try to make a political argument out of one particular disaster I think there is a bit of a short cut that can sometimes not have the desired outcome.
"Pointing at any one incident and saying, 'Well this is because of that,' is neither helpful nor entirely accurate," he said. "What we are focussed on right now on is giving the people of Fort McMurray, and across Alberta, the kind of support that they need."
'Of course' Fort McMurray fire linked to climate change, Elizabeth May says - Politics - CBC News
It's like she took the words right out of my mouth.
'Of course' Fort McMurray fire linked to climate change, Elizabeth May says
The leader of Canada's Green Party said Wednesday climate change was partly to blame for the wildfire devastating Fort McMurray, Alta., touching off a debate about whether it was the right time to discuss the causes of the conflagration.
"Of course," Elizabeth May said Wednesday when asked if there was anything about the fire that is linked to global warming. "The temperature records were being smashed through last month for northern Alberta," she said, while noting that no single event is caused by climate change alone. "It's due to global emissions.
It's like she took the words right out of my mouth.
It really is shameful that people are still willing to avoid resolving climate change while these poor Albertans watch their homes go up in flames.
Truly a grotesque and abhorrent side of humanity that thankfully is losing influence by the day.
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It really is shameful that people are still willing to avoid resolving climate change while these poor Albertans watch their homes go up in flames.
Truly a grotesque and abhorrent side of humanity that thankfully is losing influence by the day.
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What political religious agenda?
The one of not being a complete douchebag?
What political religious agenda?
The one of not being a complete douchebag?
It really is shameful that people are still willing to avoid resolving climate change while these poor Albertans watch their homes go up in flames.
Truly a grotesque and abhorrent side of humanity that thankfully is losing influence by the day.