Wildfire smoke highlights climate change’s risks

The unusual event, spurred by wildfires in Canada, illustrates the kind of conditions that many may have to deal with on an increasing basis as global warming leads to severe weather and its after-affects. The West Coast in particular is already seeing worsened wildfires due to climate change and is expected to bear the brunt of the problem in the U.S. “It’s a pretty clear climate change fingerprint over, say, the Western U.S. as far as the fire seasons becoming more severe,” said Robert Field, an associate research scientist at...