CIRA Scientist Quoted in Fact-Check Article:
Hilburn was quoted in the article Fact Check: Video of Quebec Wildfires Starting ‘At the Same Time’ Does NOT Prove Fires Were Coordinated by Ed Payne of LeadStories.com (https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2023/06/fact-check-video-of-quebec-wildfires-starting-at-same-time-does-not-prove-fires-were-coordinated.html). This story was in response to a video on TikTok that showed satellite imagery of fires in Quebec starting at about the same time on June 2. The story quoted K. Hilburn that the blow up of these fires occurred with the passage of a cold front. (POC: K. Hilburn, CIRA, Kyle.Hilburn@colostate.edu, Funding: NOAA BIL).
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