Donald Trump Blames Canada for Wildfire Smoke — but Global Warming Is Loading the Wildfire Dice

Why Trump’s smoke tariffs miss the real Canadian culprit

President Donald Trump has recently boosted tariffs against some Canadian exports to the U.S. to the 50% level, something unprecedented, even for him. He has done so, in part, as a reaction to smoke inundating the United States from Canadian forest fires. The New York Times, and who would know better on this matter, indeed, on all matters, rises to the defense of the Great White (pardon me for using this word, and, worse, capitalizing it) North.…

Trump's Wildfires: The Arsonist Complains About Choking On Smoke

Donald Trump does so many awful things: wars, inflationary taxes (tariffs), and disease promotion, that many of his actions do not draw nearly the contempt and ridicule they deserve. His complaints about the smoke from Canadian wildfires fits into that category.Just in case anyone didn’t know, Canada’s wildfires are largely about global warming. Hotter and drier weather has made it virtually inevitable that large chunks of Canada’s remote forest…

Will the US climate war with Canada become global?

For the first time, a great power has moved to price transboundary climate-driven harms–massive wildfires–and extract compensation unilaterally.

Major Driver of Worsening Canadian Wildfires Is Climate Change, Not Forest Mismanagement

President Donald Trump has blamed improper forest management for Canadian wildfires whose smoke drifted into the Midwestern and Northeastern U.S. earlier this month. But climate change — and not a lack of “Debris Removal,” as Trump suggested — is the main factor leading to worsening Canadian wildfires and smoke pollution, experts from both sides of the border told us.  Large-scale strategies to manage Canada’s vast boreal forest — part of the be…

Trump vows tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke drifting into U.S. cities

U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to hit Canada with tariffs over wildfire smoke that has drifted south across the border into American cities. Critics say the threat reflects a petulant impulse to punish a neighbour for a natural disaster—one that is especially rich coming from a country whose own policies have imposed heavy costs on the global economy. The threat adds wildfire smoke to the president’s list of grievances against Canada, fur…

Can Trump make Canada pay for wildfire smoke?

Trade lawyers, climate law scholars and forest ecologists on what the U.S. can — and can't — do about smoke drifting south