Climate Change Made Ontario, N.W.T. Fire Conditions Roughly Twice as Likely: Report
Human-caused warming made the extreme fire weather behind the blazes about twice as likely, and more than 3.8 million hectares have burned this year, scientists said.
- A Thursday report from World Weather Attribution found human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of extreme fire weather in Ontario and the Northwest Territories this summer.
- Researchers compared current conditions to a pre-industrial world, finding that global warming driven by fossil fuel emissions has made these intense fire weather events significantly more frequent.
- Canada has warmed 65% more than the United States in recent decades, with annual burned land increasing about 50% over 30 years according to scientists studying the boreal forests.
- President Donald Trump blamed poor forest management for fires, threatening to punish Canada, but climate scientists argue that carbon pollution, not forest practices, drives these intense conditions.
- University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver stated that "smoke does not carry a passport," emphasizing how historical emissions from the United States fuel these global impacts.
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Climate change made Ontario wildfire conditions twice as likely: report
The conditions underlying intense July wildfires in Ontario and Northwest Territories were made roughly twice as likely due to human-induced climate change, said a new report published Thursday. The report by an international team of scientists says what were once rare fire conditions are now increasingly likely today due to climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels. "The geographic spread of these fires is scary and shows that des…
The scientist at the head of the international project World Weather Attribution expressed deep concern at the silence of politicians in the face of evidence linking devastating forest fires in Europe and Canada to climate change.
Human-induced climate change has doubled the likelihood of extreme fires in Canada this year, according to a study.
A fire season like the one of 2026 "is more rare with today's climate," concluded researchers.
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