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The entire province is on fire. It has barely rained in the southern half of the province since April. It is climate change.

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You know this is the same sort of fallacious reasoning the deniers make when they say it's been usually cold and snowy in their part of the world? You need to show there's a link between the lack of rain and the province being on fire. Is there historical precedence for these kinds of dry periods and fires?

There is simple physics: warmer air holds more moisture, pulling it from the ground and holding it longer. Explains drier conditions and more extreme rainfalls when they do occur

Which is fairly consistent with other El Niño years [0]

[0] https://vancouver.weatherstats.ca/charts/precipitation-month...

I wish the hyperbolic phrase "X is in fire" would stop.

The entirety of BC is not currently on fire (obviously). And if "BC is on fire" right now, then it would also be "on fire" when there is one single forest fire burning in the province.

Most of the major cities are inundated with smoke, and almost all of the cities are flooded with people fleeing the fires. The two major interior cities are completely surrounded by fire and subject to rolling evacuations.

None of the cities you alluded to are even on fire, so why the needless hyperbole that "BC is on fire"?

Climate change is supposed to bring more rainfall though.

Reposting my comment:

warmer air holds more moisture, pulling it from the ground and holding it longer. Explains drier conditions and more extreme rainfalls when they do finally occur

A couple years ago we had a major flood event which still hasn't been fully recovered from, so... Maybe that qualifies as more rainfall.

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