AFP: Human Caused Manitoba Wildfires Are Really About ‘Climate Change’

This kind of cultish protection of the cult is not unexpected, right?

‘Human caused’ Manitoba wildfire data misused to downplay climate impact

Social media posts highlighting government statistics reporting most blazes in Manitoba province were “human caused” imply climate change does not feed into warmer and drier conditions in Canada. But fires, no matter their origin, burn more intensely when gusty winds propel the flames toward drought-hit vegetation that is primed to ignite.

“100 of the 111 FIRES in Manitoba right now are confirmed HUMAN CAUSED,” reads the caption of a June 3, 2025 X post. “The MEDIA will make you believe otherwise, like it’s climate or something.”

The post includes what appears to be a collection of government data showing that the majority of wildfires in Manitoba have human origins.

Similar posts on Facebook, Instagram and X shared the numbers while also claiming the media and government were incorrectly citing climate change as the cause of the size of the blazes.

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But, if course

Laura Chasmer, an associate professor of geography and environment at the University of Lethbridge (archived here), told AFP a fire’s origin is just “one part of the puzzle” when it comes to the flames’ spread and the wider picture of climate change and its impacts.

“If the fuel conditions are really dry because you’ve had really warm, dry weather, then that vegetation, that biomass, or even the organic matter on the ground, that’s going to burn,” she said on June 5 (archived here and here).

Chasmer also explained that gusty conditions in Manitoba and other Canadian prairie provinces facilitated the spread of recent wildfires.

You mean the weather? The cult just cannot accept reality.

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