Climate change supercharged 'fire weather' behind Canada blazes: study

Climate change supercharged 'fire weather' behind Canada blazes: study
Wednesday 23 August 2023 - 09:33

Human-caused climate change made 2023’s severe, months-long “fire weather” conditions that powered Canada’s record-breaking blazes at least seven times more likely to happen, according to a new scientific analysis published Tuesday.

“As we continue to warm the planet, these kinds of events are going to get more frequent and they’re going to get more intense,” first author Clair Barnes, an environmental statistician at Imperial College London, told AFP.

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