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Wildfires, climate change, and resilience in BC

by GREGORY R, BOURBONNAIS M, GRAY R
Wildfires, climate change, and resilience in BC
Published in May 2022 - Page 5

British Columbia is Canada’s canary in the coal mine when it comes to climate change and its effects. With increasing temperature comes an increase in magnitude, duration, and the occurrence of highly damaging natural disasters.

The global mean temperature has increased by 1.7 degrees Celsius since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the late 19th Century. Parts of BC are already 2.5 to 3.0 degrees Celsius warmer, and increases are predicted to exceed five

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