Wildfire

just wondering how much

trouble it'd cause him if there was to happen to be a forest fire pop up across Windy Flats tonight.

There's a good breeze most of the time.

Red, that's a whopping good idea.

Windy flats.

Where? Bill.

Forest fire on windy flats.

Those kids are up there.

All of a sudden you have 10 phones in the room ringing and people on the phones, plus cell phones.

I think BC, uh, Wildfire said it went from, like, a single tree burning to 5,000 acres in an hour.

It was an incredible, moving with speed and violence, as they say.

It was about midnight when he got the call from the fire chief in the BC Wildfire Service.

It was time to evacuate the entire municipality.

It's never an easy decision ‘cause you think, man, it's just the wrong one, right? The inconvenience and, and it's not an uncommon thing.

Matthew Burbey agrees that roads are part of the issue.

He points to fires in Spain, France, and California where people have died in their cars while trying to escape.

... how understanding is your wife, how old are your kids? Because, you know, I just had a big kick in the nuts.

Supposed to take a guy on a goat hunt, forest fires kick me in the nuts, and we're literally hiking in for this goat hunt, and then all of a sudden we're hiking through a fire.

And it's like-

Whoa

Mm

... kinda thought it might be out.

And forest fires are weird, dude.

It's like you're just hiking and hiking and everything's fine, and like blue skies, don- smell a little bit of smoke, but like nothing crazy.

According to the UN Aid Coordination Office, OCHA, about nine in ten people in Gaza have been displaced at least once since last October.

Climate change is making the world's forests more susceptible to wildfires and pests, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization.

The State of the World's Forests 2024 report stresses the need for innovation in the forestry sector, where wildfires are more intense and frequent, even in areas that were previously fire-free.

The problem is massive and requires urgent action from the international community, given that in 2023, Wildfires released some 6,600 megatons of carbon dioxide globally.

Fires in the boreal zone just south of the Arctic accounted for nearly a quarter of total wildfire emissions by 2021. up from 10% previously, the FAO said.

It is very difficult to move anywhere when there is little information and what is given always seems to be veiled in secrecy.

And that is one of the major underlying complaints, not only from the folks who express their opinions here, but throughout all of Wildfire.

Everything always seems like some big secret.

The Forest Service should have let out on this new agency from the start, even if it was within the Department of Interior.

And that might be why we're starting to see some pushback from some of these middle management people where conversations have been had where they're like, hey, we might do something about these line officers on a national level.

Clearly, there's still a lot of frustration there.

Clearly, there's been internal pushback on Wildfire memorandums and the way that things have been directed to go.

So much so that you have agency leadership flying out to wildfires to say, hey, what the hell is going on here? How come everybody is telling us that you're not following our direction? And again, I'm highlighting all of this because...

And uh, and anyway, at that point I'm just gonna turn it over to Dane because I wanna hear what Dane has to say.

I wanna hear a little bit about forest fires too at some point, Dane.

I know there's all the other aspects of weather warfare is massive, but the fires are of, uh, um, specific interest at the moment too.

Well, the same gratitude back to both of you for participating in this conversation, and to you, Michael, for i- in our off-air discussions, which I've greatly enjoyed and garnered much from, and your perspective with your background, which is particularly unique, your degree of travel, I think as we discussed off air, 101 countries you said you've been in, and your experience in the, in the military industrial circles.

If we go back to countries that have had wildfires recently, about a, about a half dozen of them, Spain, France, Turkey, the list goes on, but they're countries that shortly prior to these fires drew a line in the sand with a particular Middle Eastern country about their genociding of populations there, referring to Israel of course, and, and suddenly there's fires.

And the key thing is here is not the point of ignition or not the ignition source, it's what is setting the template for those fires to burn with such ferocity, and that is definitely climate engineering.

I think we both discussed the US military document I found in military archives titled Forest Fires as a Military Weapon, 172 pages long, about 20 sites named in that document.

Every single country I just outlined this year that has gone up in flames, record fires, were all named in those, not just named, but full pages of research on studying that site for, again, establishing these conditions to burn with such ferocity.