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Park Williams says it was an unusually dry year across Canada

Publication: N.Y. Times

UCLA Expert: Park Williams: Associate Professor and Climate Hydrologist, Department of Geography

Synopsis: Scientists have long warned that global warming will increase the chance of severe wildfires like those that burned across Canada and heat waves like the one that smothered Puerto Rico.

UCLA News: Williams pointed out that eastern Canada and northern Alberta are actually projected to get wetter in the coming years, according to climate models. But that wasn’t the case this year. It was an unusually dry year across much of Canada. Then came the heat.

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