More heart-breaking images from Jasper, Alberta, Canada, where a devastating wildfire engulfed part of the town with flames reaching 300 to 400 feet high: This isn't normal. #ActOnClimate

Forests must be managed if one is to life in one. Behold the result of bad policy.

This isn't historically normal, which is to say that it wasn't normal in the world we grew up in, but in a world where dire climate warnings have been ignored for generations by those profiting by making them worse, extreme events obliterating things we value IS today's normal.

Indeed, someone lit it.

But that doesn't stop you using other people's misfortune for your own cynical purposes. Fortunately we have IPCC reports to provide scientific consensus views on extreme weather and they see little evidence of increased fire weather

Lack of proper Forest management / Fire Breaks, you would have thought the Canadians would know by now. Happens every year.

Miramichi fire of 1825 was bad. Lac saint Jean 1870. Timmins fire 1911. Manitoba fire 1980. You are correct, that region has suffered some massive fires over their history. The reporting of them in the modern era is probably more comprehensive though. Devastating.

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This is what you get when the federal government ignores the pleas of the residents of Jasper since 2017 to remove the Bug Kill trees around your town. Nothing to do with Climate Change.

Actually not unusual; in fact wildfires are down on average.

The town of Jasper lies in a montane ecosystem characterized by open grasslands within a dense coniferous forest where wildfires are a regular occurrence. A century of fire suppression is not normal; the intensity of the eventual fire fueled by all that plant buildup is normal.