NORMETAL: When scientists started pouring over data to assess Canada's fire season this year, they struggled to find the right superlatives. “Never be...
In this aerial photo, Omer Riviere and Serge Racette stand in front of Omer’s destroyed hunting camp in the forest around the village of Normétal in West Quebec, Canada, on September 22, 2023. AFPPIX: When scientists started pouring over data to assess Canada's fire season this year, they struggled to find the right superlatives.
“It’s an impressive wake-up call because we didn’t necessarily expect it so quickly, even if the potential was there,“ Boulanger, a forest fire specialist at Natural Resources Canada, told AFP.No more leaves on the branches, trunks blackened and roots charred: in the spruce forest of Abitibi-Temiscamingue,only a few tufts of moss managed to resist the onslaught of blazes that started in June. As far as the eye can see, there is the same desolate landscape.
Fires here are fueled by drier and hotter conditions caused by climate change. And by releasing greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, these fires in turn contribute to global warming, in a vicious circle. “When we explain to people that the fires will only really be extinguished with snow, everyone becomes eager for winter to arrive,“ Guy Lafreniere, the mayor of Lebel-sur-Quevillon, a small Quebec town of 2,000 residents who had to evacuate twice this summer, says with a smile.
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