Multiple studies show that climate change is a key factor in increasing wildfire risk
More than 1,008 fires were burning across Canada by late Wednesday, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center (CIFFC).
Toxic smoke from Canada’s historic wildfires is moving into the US, causing an air quality alert in much of the states of Colorado, Wyoming, Minnesota and Nebraska.
Canadian officials are warning that there is no immediate abatement in sight in the country’s worst fire season, which has left an estimated 41 million acres devastated and repeatedly “choked” North American cities with unhealthy smoke this summer, sending carbon dioxide emissions to record levels. and posing a serious threat to human health.
Multiple studies show climate change is a key factor in increasing wildfire risk, and a World Weather Attribution study last month found that global warming has more than doubled the likelihood of extreme fire weather in eastern Canada.
Smoke from wildfires in Canada was expected to affect much of the northern and central Plains and lower Mississippi Valley through Thursday, according to the US National Weather Service.
Notable: Carbon dioxide emissions more than doubled Canada’s previous annual record for total estimated emissions from fires last month.
By early September, the fires had emitted about 400 megatons of carbon, Mark Parrington, senior scientist at the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS), noted in an online post Tuesday.
Source :Skai
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