Climate change intensified eastern Canada s hot, dry, windy weather this summer. That made Quebec s enormous burns about twice as likely, according to a new study.
Climate change has made summers like the kind that led to Quebec's disastrous wildfire season at least seven times more likely to happen again, says a new scientific analysis. The study by the U.K.
Wildfires have occurred in almost every province and territory this summer and have burned more than 137,000 square kilometres – about twice the previous record set in 1995.