Climate change was a factor in the wildfires that swept through 12 million hectares of southern British Columbia in 2017, and will likely make future outbreaks more common, according to a study published late last year in the American Geophysical Union’s Earth’s Future journal.
The research team concluded that the fires consumed seven to 11 times more territory than would have been expected if not for human influences on the climate, the Globe and Mail reports. #bcpoli