{"id":46402,"date":"2026-07-19T02:47:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46402"},"modified":"2026-07-19T02:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:47:40","slug":"meet-the-canadian-civil-servant-responsible-for-sending-our-wildfire-smoke-to-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46402","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Canadian civil servant responsible for sending our wildfire smoke to the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebeaverton.com\/2026\/07\/meet-the-canadian-civil-servant-responsible-for-sending-our-wildfire-smoke-to-the-u-s\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Carney-Trump-coin-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:198px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>With wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada into Michigan, New York and other states, numerous Americans have once again taken to social media to complain about Canada ruining their summers and \u201csending\u201d our smoke to them. And they\u2019re right. So we at The Beaverton wanted to introduce you to the government employee who oversees the [\u2026]\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/2026\/07\/meet-the-canadian-civil-servant-responsible-for-sending-our-wildfire-smoke-to-the-u-s\/\">Meet the Canadian civil servant responsible for sending our wildfire smoke to the U.S.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>the bearverton is comedy gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very fortunate to work with a passionate team of climatologists, ecologists <strong><em>and one guy named Mark who just fucking hates Americans<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d said Keane. \u201cAnd every year we work around the clock to ensure that we create the right circumstances to send thousands of litres of smoke across the Great Lakes and into the eyes and throats of people in the U.S.\u201d<br><br>\u201cThe thing about massive fires in boreal forests far away from any major infrastructure which get so hot that water literally melts before making contact, is that they\u2019re actually very easy to control.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>the 2nd quoted line is funy in that&#8217;s exactly how water puts out fire&#8230; the water converted to steam by the heat\/flames\/fire extracts a significan amount of heat, and fire stops without heat.  <a href=\"https:\/\/share.gemini.google\/VpZzFWea3Dfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">i think.  sorta<\/a>.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada into Michigan, New York and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,857,1102,57],"class_list":["post-46402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-forest-fires","tag-tfg","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46405,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46402\/revisions\/46405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}