Climate change ‘determines the phase for more extreme fire behavior,’ the researcher says

Grand Falls-Windser Fire Chief Vince McKenzie says that he has seen a change in the world in his 42-year career.

McKenzie’s community is about 16 km north of the nearest out-of-control wildfire in Martin Lake, which was burning 2,160 hectares till Thursday morning.

“The fire season starts earlier, long and much intense. It has become a real issue in the last four or five years,” McKenzie told CBC Radio. Signal,

“Unfortunately, it’s going to continue.”

The firefighting chief said that rapidly warm and dry conditions are also increasing the risk of fire, and the province’s firefighting is seeing that the risk increases every year.

“Climate change is very real in fire fighting service, and the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs, of which I have been connected for years, we are telling governments that climate change is real.”

Hot weather, worse fire

McKenzie said that the fire has started to be synonymous with summer in Canada.

It is an idea that Catiline Trudeau Climate is researching with Central.

The data of the organization from its climate shift index indicates that high average temperature is the direct result of climate change.

Climate Central aims to find the link between weather events and human-borne climate change, usually known as a climate characteristic.

Trudeau stated that “the research group developed its index using weather models and patterns to compare two different worlds.

One world is the one we live now, he said, and the other one is one without a greenhouse gases. From there, scientists and researchers calculated the possibility of any temperature at any place.

According to the Climate Shift Index, climate change made the fire position in most parts of Newfoundland at least five times more likely.

“We are trying to make a device that helps people understand the role that we are playing in changes we are looking at our weather,” Trudeau said. “The risks we are seeing, they are very much likely in a world in a world, which they are in a world in a world.”

The researcher said that the index also helps people understand why wildfires seem very bad this year.

According to the province’s wildfire dashboard, Newfoundland and Labrador have given less than 100 wildfires per season in the last five years, but this year has given less than 216.

“Climate change does not start fire, but what it does. It actually enhances conditions. It actually determines the platform for more extreme fire behavior that allows these fire to burn out of control,” Trudeau said.

Get ready

McKenzie said that people can take home to stop the fire.

“The public needs to be more aware around it,” he said.

McKenzie recommended people to clear the evastroos of their homes. He said that leaf garbage and other natural debris can be very combustible, so lawn maintenance is also important.

However, McKenzie said that the circumstances of this summer forest fire are not normal.

“At the end of the day, it is going to take the weather to prevent these incidents, and a good drowning of rain,” he said.