Is Canada experiencing the same fire problem as the US, where the fires in the west are getting worse?

In 2011 (I believe) half the town of Slave Lake was destroyed by fire, last year we had massive flooding. 28 years is not long enough to demonstrate a trend.

Edit: I dispute the significance of the study because I don't believe that less then three decades of statistics is enough to draw concrete conclusions which could not be explained other ways. Increased human presence in northern Alberta increases the risk of accidental fires and may not be indicative of drier conditions. Or you could fall back on the somewhat naive position that the dry conditions are part of a cyclical trend (although I personally don't believe it) which one would be hard pressed to disprove with data spanning such a short time line. Climatologists want to look at data spanning centuries , not decades.

Raisin is right. Much if not all of the increased fire risk is predictable based on bad forest management and not allowing natural fires burn. It also is why pine beetles and other pests have been getting worse. The increased pests come from crowded diseased trees that tend to make fires much much worse when they finally do come through. I learned that when I was 8 years old but then again I was a very prodigious reader. When I see people trying to blame it on "climate change" my eyes roll back into their sockets.

I'm sorry you haven't gotten much if anything in the way of meaningful answers.

I'm afraid I don't have much of one either, but I do have a bit of info from my uncle, who used to be a forest ranger (he's retired now).

He was talking about the subject of forest fires. He said that, early in his career, when he was on a "campaign" fire (a big fire, where they need to bring in people from all over), the old-timers told him to pay attention and learn everything he could from it, because there might not be another one for years. Now, they have one of those something like 2 or 3 times a year.

I know, anecdotal, not statistical, and about the US, but I thought you could use some backup.

We had previously been stamping out every forest fire as soon as it started. We are still doing this. This makes it so that the underbrush grows thick and the forest fires become less and less controllable. Sure ti becomes more prevalent during drought seasons, it always has.

If you want to link this to a consequence of AGW, then show a statistically significant increase in the number of droughts.

As it stands I get SICK AND TIRED of you warmers linking everythign to AGW and not doing a bit of real analysis. Global warming is supposed to place more H2O in the atmosphere and your response is that placing more H2O in the atmosphere leading to droughts and floods??? That does not even make sense.

Sure you use the climate change idiocy to say that every change that can possibly happen in any location is caused by climate change, BUT CLIMATES ARE ALWAYS CHANGING. You need to link it directly to CO2 emissions!!!!

And the REAL solution is simple. Let the forest fires go. The reason we do not do this are because we don't want people to die in fire or their houses to go up in flames.

Since when does < 1% become a global phenomenon? Is anything corrected by controlled burns or the lack of ? It could just as well have beneficial aspects. I'm not sure your really asking a real question.

Instead of water dropped by planes and helicopters, use dry dirt, because only dirt and dirt dust puts out fires upon contact immediately. Water evaporates, dirt or sand dont. Check with the Covington Who's Who web site for Disaster solutions under my title The Major Disaster Solutionist American Master. For everyones safety. Mike

The reason they are getting worse is because of the greenies. They won't let anyone groom the forests. Dead wood (or fuel) just keep building up and then when a fire starts it has plenty of fuel and no roads to get to the fire to extinguish it. Thank you Greenies!

So, the study proved that when there is less rain there are more fires. That is pretty much it. Who woulda figured.

Hmm they use CO2 extinguishers to put out fires.

Our last fire season was not as bad as it was before