The record-setting wildfires that ripped through Quebec this summer were made more likely and more intense by human-caused climate change, according to a new analysis by an international team of scientists.
The World Weather Attribution initiative, a U.K.-based group that estimates the contribution of climate change to individual weather events, found that our changing climate made the weather conditions that drove the wildfires two times more likely.
The study focused on Quebec, which experienced an exceptionally high number of wildfires in May and June after a dry, hot spring. The province has recorded a total of 5.2 million hectares burned this year.
Yan Boulanger, a research
