From Hawaii to Canada, searing heat and deadly wildfires are raising the alarm about global warming
email rounding up the latestThousands of people are scrambling to evacuate the northern Canadian city of Yellowknife as flames from another blaze in the country’s record-breaking wildfire season bear down on people’s homes, threatening North America’s second fire disaster in as many weeks.
The incidents are part of a broader pattern of extreme weather and disasters that have unfolded across North America this summer, asstorms, rainfall, heat and drought, and produces weather patterns with the potential to cause devastation. Heatwaves, drought, flooding and more intense storms were all “directly” linked to climate change, she said, which was also creating the conditions for more frequent wildfires of longer duration., which have burnt a record-breaking 14mn hectares of forest this year — an area the size of Greece — drifted into New York and other US cities earlier this summer, an experience of dire and dangerous air quality to millions of people hundreds of miles from the blazes.
“It’s been frustrating to realise the human and economic toll of extreme weather events related to climate change, and yet have it not be part of the political conversation,” said Paul Bledsoe, a former White House climate adviser under president Bill Clinton. “There is a disconnect.” David Watkins, the director of government affairs at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said many US politicians held views on fossil fuels and their role in the economy that “haven’t changed in more than a century”.
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