Climate change doubled risk of B.C.’s record-setting 2017 wildfires: study

Research suggests British Columbia’s record-setting 2017 wildfire season wasn’t an accident and Environment Canada scientists say that climate change stacked the deck against the province from the start.
In a newly published paper, researchers from the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis say hot, dry weather directly caused by greenhouse gas emissions increased the province’s fire risk that year by up to four times. The same factors are likely to have increased t