"This is an unprecedented event," said Noah Diffenbaugh, professor and senior fellow at Stanford University in California, who has been studying fire risk in California. But research over the past 15 years shows that climate change has drastically amplified the risk of many conditions that help wildfires ignite and spread. and Alberta have been bearing the brunt of that increase , according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. It uses modelling to determine how likely a given event would be with or without human-caused climate change. He added, "Becoming resilient will require catching up with the climate change that we're already living with and getting ahead of the climate change that is to come."

Source: CBC News September 12, 2020 08:00 UTC