He can stop whenever he wants

It's okay. Once California is unlivably hot and dry we'll be paying through the nose for Canadian grown tomatoes and strawberries. All those wildfires are just making room for us to plant first world crops that make more money than lentils and wheat.

@Tarmaque Well, that volcanic eruption off of Tonga two years ago has reversed the drying trend for at least a few more years. Fire season should be unusually quiet for a while.

This is a humon comic! guest comics always have "written by Dayvi and Illustrated by insert guest comic of the week" but this is 100% humon

@AmericanButterfly
Excellent news. Hopefully she has made a full recovery from whatever problems she was having.

@AmericanButterfly Oh, been so long since Humon last was active; first time since 15th of jan

@AmericanButterfly YES LES GOOO

Meanwhile USA with giant smoke stack factories claiming they can not live without them.

He admits that he did…say that. Not that it took.

“Giving up smoking is easy…I've done it hundreds of times” -Mark Twain
It's serious, and I am inclined to cry, but I would rather laugh.

Forest fires, a.k.a. wild fires, happen on both sides of the border. Right now, it's smoke from Canadian fires drifting south, next month, it may be smoke from American fires drifting north. Those fires don't really have a lot to do with climate change, although the warmer climate is undoubtedly making fire season last a little longer with slightly more frequent fires. The geological record says fires have been common over much of North America at least since the last Ice Age.

@westofEden
Forest fires are a natural occurrence but their frequency and size depends on a wide range of factors. The hotter weather and frequent long dry spells which are common results of global warming have made the forests more vulnerable to such occurrences.

There have been similar problems in much of Europe in recent years because of the generally hotter and dryer weather. From Iberia to the Balkans wildfires have been more common and larger in recent years.

Further on this on the BBC news site there is a short video looking at how wildfires in the US have increased in scale and intensity in recent years. Not sure whether people outside the UK can view it? The video is at
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-66114848

@westofEden A whole lot of plants and animals require occasional forest fires. Humans just don't like the fires, which has resulted in a regression among the species relying on them, due to human efforts to limit the number and severity of the fires.

@Louhikaarme
That's been a problem in the past, especially in N America I believe when forest fires were stopped as soon as they were spotted which lead to the development of a mass of dead wood choking the undergrowth and meaning when fires did get started they burnt with dramatic speed and ferocity. However I think that policy has been corrected in recent decades.

@westofEden It's never, ever (in recorded history), been this bad- not just a little or slightly...

@WelcomeMatt Recorded history in Canada and the US does not cover a long time. The East Coast settlements go back as much as 500 years, but the West Coast has less than 200 years of recorded history (the American aboriginal cultures never invented writing, and so did not record history or anything else; oral history tends to get distorted over time.)

@westofEden

Global warming also drives an increase in dry lightning, which is a factor in more bushfires.

Sorry.

@Raznaak It's okay Canada. We still love you more than Mexico, even though Mexico has better food. (No offense to poutine, but you just can't beat a really good tamale.)

@Tarmaque now I really want either a poutine tamale or tamale poutine.

@AnaKaye Dang it! Now so do I! (The whole thing is so against my diabetic diet though.)

canada smokes CONFIRMED??

@MikoMae
Out of industrial smokestacks, yes.

The Scots are about the only country that will benefit from Global Warming - they will get to sit in the Highlands and eat fresh pineapple whilst watching all the hated English drown.

nahhhh no way i thought it was USA (i live tehre)