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Originally Posted by accord1999
The immediate cause is BC forest fires, with several big fire seasons starting from 2017.
Is that climate change, the result of decades of unnecessary fire suppression, maybe some combination of both?
Interestingly, area burned in Alberta has a weak correlation with smoke in Calgary. 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2019 all had more than 500K ha. |
It's not fire suppression.
It's a bad mountain pine beetle cycle, likely exacerbated by climate change.