As President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu force Americans, against their will, deeper into conflict with Iran, we are also experiencing the 2026 Canada wildfire season here in the Northeast. While we may decorate for the annual occasion with red maple leaves covered in flames, New York and other states faced warnings, based on the Air Quality Index (AQI), from the fine particulate matter (PM2.5) being injected into people’s lungs and eventually into the bloodstream. Although this year’s wildfire season is not abnormal or higher in the number of fires or the amount of destruction done, this is the fourth year in a row where New Yorkers have had their skies blanketed with a thick haze that blocks the sun for days because of “coincidental” weather and wind patterns that carry the smoke to us (the patterns just happened to be right for four years in a row). Can we blame these conditions on drought, dry vegetation, increased insects weakening trees, hot weather, and lightning, or is there something else at play here?
I wrote my initial thoughts about these wildfires back in 2023, and even then, it seemed out of the ordinary and something worth investigating outside of official government propaganda, but now that we have seen the same type of smog hanging over our heads for the fourth year, there is little denying that something is going on that is causing us to go from no haze in 2022 to thick smoke four years in a row. I speculated initially that there could be a few causes, which included: organized arson, lack of forest management, and experimentation for weather modification. I did not buy the idea that climate change was the cause, especially given that the wildfire trends did not suggest that there was a correlation (you can read the official government data that I cited for yourself and draw your own conclusions) and we had just experienced the COVID-19 fiasco where only scientists who pushed the official doomsday propaganda were funded and permitted to speak (the dissenters were cast out in witch trials).
However, now that it has been four years of the same conditions, we can be even more sure that an all-of-a-sudden burst of annual smog is not simply a coincidence caused by climate change (just like with the pandemic, climate scientists are incentivized to push the propaganda, and the academic community has become corrupted). I heard one commentator argue, without providing sources, of course, that these coincidental hazy events are proof of climate change because the conditions build up over time quietly in the background until everything finally “explodes.” Yet, we have had “explosions” for four years in a row without much time in between for the effects of climate change to build back up, and then, you have others who argue that worsening natural disasters are the direct result of climate change. So, basically, if nothing happens, it is evidence of climate change. If something does happen, it is also because of climate change. If events happen that you expect not to occur (like long cold events when we should be experiencing global warming), it is also climate change. Therefore, the conclusion is that no matter what happens, climate change is the culprit, and this dogmatic view causes people to worship at the altar of Mother Nature and shun the unbelievers. If climate change is what is causing New Yorkers (and residents of other states) to experience this smog year after year suddenly after an initial event, the burden of proof is on you. I am not interested in your assumptions that climate change is an undisputed fact, and I should not be expected to believe it just because the supermajority of scientists does (again, the academic community incentivizes groupthink). Prove that this specific thick-smoke event over our heads is caused directly by climate change, because even if climate change contributes to the fires, why did we not see this smoke before 2023?
Likewise, even if I offer alternative viewpoints on what this smog could be, it does not prove conclusively that these ideas are correct either. At the end of the day, probably nobody really knows the full story, and we are all speculating to some degree (even the climate scientists).
One hypothesis on what could be happening stems from the concept of scientists wanting to inject aerosols (such as sulfur dioxide) into the stratosphere to reflect the sun’s rays and cause a blockage of sunlight reaching the surface, and this would result in the sky changing from blue to white, while sunsets become red (the technique would not be dissimilar to the weather-modification concept of cloud seeding, which sprays the clouds with chemicals, such as silver iodide, to cause snow or rain). The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) and the National Environment Research Council (NERC) in the United Kingdom (UK) have already begun testing this sun-blocking technology via £50 million and £10 million government grants, and researchers at the University of California at San Diego have proposed combating El Nino, which the World Meteorological Association admits has nothing to do with climate change, by introducing particles into the clouds to decrease the sun’s intensity. What are the effects of “dimming the sun?” A 2023 study found that one such effect caused clouds to thicken or get brighter during bushfire smoke (solar radiation was being reflected back out to space). Could it be that experiments on this sun-blocking technology are being conducted in parallel with the Canada wildfires to test the effects for nationwide or worldwide policies? The wildfires may be used as cover so that scientists can freely do whatever they want to the atmosphere while blaming the effects on the fires. In the process, this is causing us to breathe in unhealthy particulates, but hey, if experiments are being conducted on the populace, we should all sacrifice our health (to later rely on the healthcare industry to treat our symptoms for a profit) for the collective good of “science,” right (Thanos cheers)?
As the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) integrates with our surveillance systems to create a totalitarian dystopia, national, subnational, and local governments and billionaire interests are pushing for an explosion of data centers into local areas, often against the wishes of the people living there. These new data centers require increased power, water, and additional minerals to be able to be built and maintained (the average data center requires 5,000 to 15,000 tons of copper); and it just so happens that Canada is one of the largest producers of copper, which is also important for electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels, and other technologies to power the new green economy that is being forced onto the populace without its consent. Could heavy mining at Ontario’s Sudbury Basin and Ring of Fire or British Columbia’s Highland Valley Copper be the culprits for the thick smoke that is making its way south of the border? Perhaps since 2023, the anticipation for data centers caused an increase in production or a new process for harvesting the materials that leave nasty side effects to the environment and the people, and we may have been conditioned into thinking that this is the new normal (it is ironic that the average citizen is expected to sacrifice for the planet and reduce his or her carbon footprint, but large corporations are encouraged to harm the environment to produce these data centers because their partnerships with governments will likely result in increased surveillance and control).
This could explain why people are complaining about smelling burning plastic or chemicals in the air of the Midwest and other affected areas (this year, I could smell burning in the air, felt the effects in my lungs, had mild burning in my eyes, and was coughing). Many are observing that it was not a normal smell from a fire, and based on our senses, we know that this is not natural. The corporate media, government officials, and scientists can tell us what they want, but we have enough situational awareness to understand that something is going on outside of the mainstream narrative. Are we really going to believe that we had none of this in 2022 and earlier, and then, we saw an out-of-the-blue shift to having a plastic smell “linked to chemical reactions between UV rays and smoke compounds, leading to the formation of benzene and formaldehyde?” Suddenly, after years and years of regular wildfires with no benzene or formaldehyde in the air, we just woke up one year to breathing these cancer-causing chemicals in? That seems very unlikely.
It is not just silver iodide, sulfur dioxide, and formaldehyde being injected into our skies and bodies, but Canada is notorious for spraying its forests with glyphosate, which is an herbicide meant to kill broadleaf plants and deciduous trees that grow in place of the pines and spruces (coniferous trees) that are collected for lumber production. Because coniferous trees are more susceptible to burning than deciduous ones, this practice increases the risk of fires spreading uncontrollably; and basically, because the wood industry desires more of a certain kind of tree, chemicals are utilized to manipulate the forests, perhaps leading to more burning. It appears that at least part of the reason for these Canada wildfires is not because of climate change, but it is because of poor forest management.
Forest management is important, as I mentioned previously that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) does controlled burns (I have seen this taking place in person around the Albany area), and Canada, although it has not outright banned the practice, has made it difficult for Indigenous Peoples (First Nations or Native Americans or Indians, depending on one’s preferred terminology or geographic location) to perform their “cultural burns” that help to prevent natural fires from getting out of control. If the people living in these areas were able to conduct burns without having to coordinate with federal and provincial agencies, perhaps the situation would not be so dire. Yet instead, Canada lets its fires burn without proper management or the firefighting budget necessary to respond (Ontario Premier Doug Ford allocated $135 million for the 2025-2026 season and ended up spending $271 million, and for the 2026-2027 season, he allocated $150 million and will likely need additional resources to combat the out-of-control fires that are still burning).
These fires are causing extreme difficulties for the First Nations, and just in Ontario alone, it is estimated that 1,600 such people have had to evacuate their homes (fires have also raged throughout Manitoba and Saskatchewan), and although the federal government in Canada has invested in firefighting training and emergency planning for tribes to avoid disaster, one commentator (msmoaryouknow) believes that the government is to blame (particularly that of Ontario Premier Doug Ford) for the displacement of thousands of First Nations people (due to lack of controlled burns, spraying of glyphosate, overmining copper for data centers and pipelines, and overall prioritizing corporate profits over the safety of residents), even going as far as to suggest that many of the fires were intentionally started in a line all at the same time (there is video footage to show that this may have occurred).
Arson is definitely a big problem in Canada, and after Manitoba released data in 2025 suggesting that most of the fires were caused by human activity (some deliberate, but most probably by accident), it started to raise questions about the primary cause. Of the twenty-eight new fires started on July 16, fifteen of them were determined to be caused by humans, and eight of them were confirmed to have been natural (five remain unknown). If humans contributed to starting most (or even half of) the fires, it raises doubts on whether climate change is the culprit. Despite this, experts are still trying to blame climate change, saying that even though humans caused the fires, the conditions from changing weather patterns made the forests more susceptible to burning (through hypothesizing and without proof linking these specific fires directly to climate change, of course; and I do not know about you, but if you light a match in the forest, the trees will burn, regardless of climate change).
In typical fashion, instead of trying to get to the bottom of why the wildfires were caused, President Donald Trump threatened Canada with tariffs (utilized as economic sanctions) if the country did not get its act together in controlling the blazes (United States Senator Bernie Moreno jumped in on the action and introduced legislation to further sanction Canada). Of course, as discussed, even if this were the fault of the federal and provincial governments in Canada, the average citizen of Canada is not responsible and should not be punished. More than likely, provincial governments that are partnering with corporations for large projects have the blessing of (or partnership with) the federal government, and in turn, the move for data centers and green energy infrastructure is being pushed by global elites (including those who hang out in President Trump’s circles). Therefore, punishing Canada is not really going to change anything, and it is just a measure to save face and pretend that Americans’ interests are being looked after.
If we look at data (such as that from the Canada Interagency Forest Fire Centre Inc.), we see that even 2023 pales in historical comparison to frequency of fires, however, it far exceeded any years on record for the amount of area burned. Data from 2024, 2025, and 2026 (so far) have not trended upwards in either frequency of fires or area burned; and there seems to be nothing abnormal about the fires after 2023, and yet, every year since (but not before), we have seen periods here in the United States where thick haze has covered our skies. It seems a bit peculiar, and although it is difficult to prove, it seems unlikely that the smoke is natural. This is a trend that started in 2023, and an all-of-a-sudden pattern indicates some unnatural cause. We may never know what is going on with this, but we should keep investigating. If it turns out that all of this is just a giant series of coincidences and climate change is the sole cause of the fires, at least we can say that we exhausted all possibilities, since the corporate media and government officials cannot be relied on to give us the full picture of what has transpired.
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