Global Warming – Page 66

I Lived Through Canada’s Summer Wildfire Smoke

Canada’s wildfires show that extreme weather conditions around the world are interconnected and insidiously accelerating.

A summer of extreme weather continued as residents coped with oppressive heat across a large stretch of the nation’s midsection.

Climate change has made hot, dry and windy conditions like those that fueled this year’s blazes at least twice as common as they would otherwise be.

The group of 37, including a three-week-old infant, traveled by bus to Los Angeles at a time when officials were warning against driving.

A mix of devastating wildfires, tropical storms, mudslides and heat waves foreshadows a future of intensified extremes as the world warms.