(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Dampening the forest floors, the Deep South is enveloped in smoke and wildlife devastation in Canada [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-04 Candian wildfires are out of sight and out of mind for the most part. The fires only get press when they affect human populations, particularly in the United States, such as New York or Miami. Before I share what is unreported, I want to share a clip from Donald Trump and what we are up against regarding effective climate action versus ignoramus Republicans. Below is Donald Trump's blabbering on how to prevent forest fires. It is genuinely jaw-dropping for an individual who wants to become President again in an era of climate breakdown. x Trump: We can actually dampen our forests with water that costs us nothing that will come pouring down. If you had dampened floors, you wouldn’t have forest fires pic.twitter.com/5wB5lzZX5B — Acyn (@Acyn) September 29, 2023 Wow. The stupid it burns. x The North Atlantic filled with Canadian wildfire smoke dragged into the huge swirls of back to back mid latitude cyclones. As seen by #GOES16 🛰️today. pic.twitter.com/9LXFvvxYOu — YouStorm (@YouStormorg) September 27, 2023 Mathiew Leiser and Genevieve Norman write in Barons about what the wildfires have done to the wildlife of Canada. Wildlife always seems to get the short end of the stick regarding climate impact reporting. Their suffering and deaths are ignored by most of us. No droppings, tracks, nests or other traces of wildlife—Canada's boreal forests were devastated by record wildfires this year. Canada's wildfires take devastating toll on wildlife. The biologist notes that certain species can quickly become trapped because they do not have the capacity to fly or run fast enough and over long distances in the face of very intense and rapidly advancing fires. And in certain regions, the fires struck very early in the season, therefore shortly after gestation, leaving no chance for hatchlings or sucklings to escape. The consequences are severe also for aquatic fauna. In addition to ash that blankets lakes and rivers, soil erosion caused by the loss of vegetation alters water quality. "Lakes with clear, clear water in the Canadian Shield will fill with algae which will suck the oxygen from the water, so there will be less for the animals," Langlois explains, referring to a large area of exposed rock. The chemical composition of wildfire smoke particles is also different from particles from other sources of pollution, such as car emissions or industrial pollution. It contains a greater proportion of carbon-based pollutants in various chemical forms that are sometimes deposited hundreds of kilometers from the fires. These fumes have acute or chronic effects on the health of wildlife, says Matthew Mitchell of the University of British Columbia. x Downtown Miami skyline vs Canadian wildfire smoke pic.twitter.com/jyAtLXNiDQ — Joel Franco (@OfficialJoelF) October 3, 2023 x Those Canadian wildfires are still going! And as crazy as it seems, that smoke made it all the way to Florida today. I break it all down in this video. Learn more: https://t.co/aHfqaZuA2s pic.twitter.com/XqjLzU3BXU — Ric Kearbey (@Ric_Kearbey) October 3, 2023 Canada left battered by 'never before seen' wildfire season "We have shattered all the records on a Canadian scale," says a shaken Yan Boulanger, a researcher for the country's natural resources ministry. There had never been so many areas burned—18 million hectares (70,000 square miles), via 6,400 fires—or so many people evacuated, at more than 200,000. "It's an impressive wake-up call because we didn't necessarily expect it so quickly, even if the potential was there," Boulanger, a forest fire specialist at Natural Resources Canada, told AFP. In Quebec, hard hit and less accustomed than the west to very large fires, the shock is immense. No more leaves on the branches, trunks blackened and roots charred: in the spruce forest of Abitibi-Temiscamingue,only a few tufts of moss managed to resist the onslaught of blazes that started in June. As far as the eye can see, there is the same desolate landscape. "There is little chance that this forest will be able to regenerate. The trees are too young to have had time to form cones which ensure the next generation," says Maxence Martin, a professor of forest ecology at the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue. 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