Photos reveal melted lampposts, power line poles split in half and charred homes in the Texas Panhandle as the state battles its second-largest wildfire in state history.
Welcome to Climate Change, where massive wildfires in North America during winter become normalized.
Canada is gonna have a fun year WRT wildfires this year. Western Canada is still in the grips of a massive drought, we got only a fraction of the winter precipitation we needed, and a good chunk of that was in rain instead of the snow that would produce watershed runoff well into the summer.
There is no “new normal” or return to the old normal without making a real effort to finally combat climate change. Things can - and will - just keep getting worse.
Welcome to Climate Change, where massive wildfires in North America during winter become normalized.
Canada is gonna have a fun year WRT wildfires this year. Western Canada is still in the grips of a massive drought, we got only a fraction of the winter precipitation we needed, and a good chunk of that was in rain instead of the snow that would produce watershed runoff well into the summer.
And it’s probably going to be worse next year.
And the year after that.
And the year after that.
There is no “new normal” or return to the old normal without making a real effort to finally combat climate change. Things can - and will - just keep getting worse.
We are already dealing with Zombie Fires in western Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/wildfires-zombie-fires-canada-bc-alberta-1.7119851