last summer, b.c. had its worst wildfire season , and experts are concerned that this year’s low snowpack could lead to another summer of brutal drought and wildfires. this week, officials with b.c.’s river forecast centre said the province’s snowpack is almost 40 per cent lower than normal for this time of year.
last month, several climate agencies, including copernicus and the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, declared that 2023 was the hottest year on record, at 1.48 c above pre-industrial times, beating the previous record in 2016.
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as part of the 2015 paris agreement, world leaders pledged to limit temperature rise to 1.5 c, which climate scientists argue to critical to limit disasters like heat waves, floods drought and wildfire. the un’s intergovernmental panel on climate change has warned the world is not on track to meet those targets.