Heat triggered infernos and a spike in emergency room visits.
Trees charred by wildfires on the outskirts of Lytton, British Columbia, on September 1, 2021. Lytton, located 250kms northeast of Vancouver, gained international attention for setting a new Canadian heat record of 49.6 degrees Celsius before being ravaged days later by a fire that killed at least two residents.The last eight years have been the eight hottest years on record, NASA and the National Oceanic Administration confirmed today.
“The fact is that we’ve now kind of moved into a new regime ... this is likely the warmest decade in many, many hundreds, maybe 1000s of years,” says Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “There’s enough change that it’s having impacts locally.” In North America, those local impacts included epically bad summer heat, even for typically cool regions. In late June and early July, the Pacific Northwestern US and Western Canada struggled with
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