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Raging Canadian wildfire points to global warming

A wildfire burns as evacuees who were stranded north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada head south of Fort McMurray on Highway 63, May 6, 2016.
A wildfire burns as evacuees who were stranded north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada head south of Fort McMurray on Highway 63, May 6, 2016. Photo by Reuters.


The wildfire that has devastated the remote Canadian town of Fort McMurray has caused an estimated $7.3 billion in insurance-related losses, the most from that type of disaster since 1970. Experts including Glen MacDonald, a professor of geography at UCLA, say the size of the blaze, along with an increase in the number of wildfires in the U.S., are evidence of global warming.

Source: Raging Canadian wildfire points to global warming CBS News, 9 May 2016

Additional coverage about the Canadian wildfire:

Did fire suppression actually help cause Alberta’s huge wildfires? The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2016