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And yet, if we look at the numbers, wildfires are actually nowhere near as bad as they were in the 90's: https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/data/charts/NFDB_stats_chart.p...

I'd like a ban on people going outside and causing wild fires like we had in 2020 though. That was a good year.

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Nope - your chart only shows up to 2021. Wildfires are actually much much worse than the 90s.

“This year’s fires have now burned more than double the previous record of 7.1 million hectares torched in 1995” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/23/mapping-the-scale-o...

17.577 million hectares have burned so far this year. If 2023 were on that graph it would be a skyscraper towering over every big fire year in the 80s and 90s.

This year is unprecedented. And it isn't even over yet and the fires are still burning.

But what does that say about the long term trend? Is 2023 an anomaly skewing the data, or does the data actually show a trend of increasing wildfires?

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