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2024-05-19 19:18:20 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4C8AE12A0EFAFE38DE941F1973991F45944111EDEF28E5E6FF8076DFC1679088
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In Canada, 2 main causes for wildfires are lightning & humans, not climate change. Between 1990 & 2020 only 33% of fires in Que were caused by lightning, in Ont it was 50%. In 2020 88% of wildfires in Alb were caused by humans & between 2017-2022, 68% of wildfires were. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/17/climate/canada-conspiracy-theorist-arson-wildfires-intl/index.html https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/alarming-disinformation-about-quebec-wildfires-spreads-after-arsonist-s-guilty-plea-1.6731047
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