Wildfire expert and Global Wildfire Collective Charter Member, Dr. Mike Flannigan says this year will be his “litmus test” for whether Canada’s wildfire seasons, already in uncharted territory and fueled by human-caused climate change, have entered a “new reality.”
“My narrative used to be, there’ll be bad fire years and there’ll be quiet years. I’m now beginning to think at a national scale most years are going to be bad fire years,” said Flannigan, a professor of wildland fire at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.
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