{"id":261317,"date":"2023-06-08T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=261317"},"modified":"2023-06-08T15:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:32:24","slug":"quebec-wildfires-due-to-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=261317","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Wildfires Due to Arson?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From\u00a0Roy Spencer, PhD.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 8th, 2023 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thick wildfire smoke that choked major metro areas like Toronto and New York City in the last couple of days originated from over 40 hotspots in Quebec. What is suspicious to me is that most of those hotspots ignited within just a few hours on the morning of Friday, June 2, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a GOES-East 3.9 micron image from midday on June 2, which shows the bright near-infrared emissions from those hotspots. You can make your own loops of archived imagery collected every 10 minutes\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s a loop of the daytime 3.9 micron imagery on June 2 (large file):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were no \u201cdry thunderstorms\u201d in the area, so it is impossible they occurred naturally through lightning strikes. It seems improbable that all of this fires ignited at nearly the same time by chance. The Toronto Sun is\u00a0reporting<\/a>\u00a0that Quebec police are investigating whether some of the fires might have been deliberately set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The thick wildfire smoke that choked major metro areas like Toronto and New York City in the last couple of days originated from over 40 hotspots in Quebec. What is suspicious to me is that most of those hotspots ignited within just a few hours on the morning of Friday, June 2, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":261323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691820067,691820068],"class_list":{"0":"post-261317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-quebec-police","9":"tag-wildfire","11":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/00wildfire.jpg?fit=1200%2C810&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-15YN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":262230,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=262230","url_meta":{"origin":261317,"position":0},"title":"Unraveling the Enigma: Canadian Wildfires, a Stroke of Misfortune","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"15\/06\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The weather conditions in Quebec preceding the wildfire event were largely normal, and the high pressure over southern Canada, responsible for the warming, has no proven association with climate change.","rel":"","context":"In \"Canadian wildfires\"","block_context":{"text":"Canadian wildfires","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=canadian-wildfires"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0prothomalo-english_2023-06_21ff7ab1-e53a-4240-83da-d71ac73b0c63_CANADA_WILDFIRES_FORESTRY.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0prothomalo-english_2023-06_21ff7ab1-e53a-4240-83da-d71ac73b0c63_CANADA_WILDFIRES_FORESTRY.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0prothomalo-english_2023-06_21ff7ab1-e53a-4240-83da-d71ac73b0c63_CANADA_WILDFIRES_FORESTRY.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0prothomalo-english_2023-06_21ff7ab1-e53a-4240-83da-d71ac73b0c63_CANADA_WILDFIRES_FORESTRY.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0prothomalo-english_2023-06_21ff7ab1-e53a-4240-83da-d71ac73b0c63_CANADA_WILDFIRES_FORESTRY.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":262119,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=262119","url_meta":{"origin":261317,"position":1},"title":"Wrong, Mainstream Media, Climate Change Didn\u2019t Cause Canadian Forest Fires or the Smoke in U.S. Cities","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"14\/06\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, mainstream media outlets were abuzz with stories claiming that smoke from wildfires in Canada visibly polluting the skies in New York City, Washington, D.C., and many other cities in the northeastern United States was due to climate change. 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