Last week Canada’s British Columbia province which is famous for its heavenly mountains and coastline was severely hit by the drastic floods and forced about 17,000 civilians to leave their homes and seek a safer destination.
A report published by the New York Times highlighted that this is the second time in six months the region has faced a major weather-related emergency. The main cause behind the catastrophic event is climate change, reveals expert.
This year British Columbia has suffered from record-breaking heat, wildfires and floods. This has posed a serious blow to Canada as hundreds of lives were lost and hundreds of millions worth of damage from these disasters.
“In the last six months, BC has both burned and drowned, So there’s really no greater evidence of climate change right now than here in British Columbia,” said Merran Smith, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, a climate program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Rachel White, a professor at the University of British Columbia who studies how large-scale atmospheric patterns contribute to extreme weather, said that it was impossible to say for sure whether these catastrophic events resulted directly from climate change. But, she also pointed out the impact of climate change and added, “These events were made worse because of climate change.”
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