Alberta wildfires: Climate change increasing risk of fires and other extreme weather events
On May 10, Christie Tucker, a manager with Alberta Wildfire, said so far this year, wildfires had burned about 410,000 hectares — double the average area burned for an entire wildfire season.
“Also, yes, climate change tends to make the wildfire season longer. In general, the snow melts earlier, the forest can dry out earlier and that lengthens the forest fire season.”“People who have to evacuate their homes or even had homes destroyed. Also, it has impacts on air quality. The smoke from wildfires spreads across a much larger area that has impacts for people who have respiratory diseases, for example.
“Whatever we do, we’re going to see some additional climate change. The impacts that we’re seeing are going to get worse. We can limit how much worse they get if we’re able to get emissions down to net zero rapidly.”“We’re going to see more extreme wildfire seasons. How big those increases are will depend on how much warming we see on a global scale, which depends on how quickly we can get emissions to zero.”“Absolutely.
“We look at the number and intensity of fires this year and the widespread fires that we have. It’s something that we haven’t seen before. In past years, we’ve had large fires that burned expansive areas, but this year we have multiple fires across the province.” “I think we need to be careful as we go forward and be conscious of the environment. There’s widespread concerns on that and how we can improve that.”During an agricultural announcement in Morinville Wednesday, NDP MLA Heather Sweet said a New Democrat government would bring back thewhile also finding ways to transition to greener energy sources and reduce emissions.
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