Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the ‘new abnormal’
As Earth’s climate continues to change from heat-trapping gases spewed into the air, ever fewer people are out of reach from the billowing and deadly fingers of wildfire smoke, scientists say. Already wildfires are consuming three times more of the U.S. and Canada each year than in the 1980s and studies predict fire and smoke to worsen.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.