It's already been a record-setting year in Canada. What role is climate change playing?
The infrared heat signature from raging flames pierces thick, billowing clouds rising from a wildfire near Waskaganish in northern Quebec on July 13, 2023, as seen by the Sentinel 2 satellite.
"The distribution of fires from coast to coast this year is unusual," said Michael Norton, with Canada's Natural Resources ministry,back in early June — even before the most recent upsurge in wildfires scorching British Columbia. "At this time of the year, fires usually occur only on one side of the country at a time, most often that being in the west."
It happened in British Columbia during 2017, when 4,633 square miles burned. An attribution analysis revealed that "This profound influence of climate change on forest fire extremes in British Columbia, which is likely reflected in other regions and expected to intensify in the future, will require increasing attention in forest management, public health, and infrastructure," the study authors wrote inAttribution research that's still to come will give us greater clarity about what's happening right now.
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