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? In his deeply researched and compelling book, “Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast,” Vancouver-based journalist and author, John Vaillant, makes it clear that these are no ordinary forest fires. Kenney didn’t mention global warming that day either. And yet, the Conservative party has yet to tell us how it would slow the carbon emissions that cause global warming. But for these politicians and captains of the oil industry even the word “transition” has become toxic, never mind actually planning for it.

Source: thestar June 14, 2023 01:00 UTC