Canadian Wildfires and U.S. Air Quality: Climate research suggests that heat and drought associated with global warming are major reasons behind the number of fires and their intensity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/world/canada/canada-wildfires-smoke-us-air-quality.html?unlocked_article_code=oQbKYWuSoI4hvHzudQTt-UoQPWudiJx-abT0Lu-vX0JhiDzLN7v1Z3mMWjIOS-faDn6Z1ibcl5LkPvVwdcj0cGqY321Y6FB7JsrYVKnQMm2L4pwTNPJZ9I88Pb0PNPtJMI8KF9wg-cp6cHF9W_To6jW6cFzsOs4Zfc6nsZgT7wkz--NEavF3RiF8CpxCSKInDkGdj4gRnv9J4Pr6U9GwJPm4vfxwJuOYxowK3D72xqbI1C4qzXGGKdMubQnILXPzRa7l7Ypjk6AYbTsGo07FEtvyBObXQTYkk33sNYbucLARRb5rpfx9iWR44rb_SaWDmeqxCQJIQGwGG5kY8lLmLnbRNGg1eS1s7igFYH_phMHWsQNS&smid=url-shareOpen linkView original on slrpnk.net
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I live in BC and wildfires are a part of life out here. That said, they’ve been getting larger and more frequent, especially over the last couple years. Now we have El Niño on the way too, I can only imagine how bad it will be next year.
It’s wild to me that people still refuse to make the connection between climate change and these events.