Hanes: Fires force Quebec to confront big picture of climate change | Montreal Gazette

We can't continue to lurch from emergency to emergency without connecting the dots and asking important questions.

It’s hard to believe that just a month ago, parts of Montreal were on flood watch, as a rapid spring thaw raised the rivers that surround this island city to perilous levels. But since then, the scorching temperatures and low precipitation that helped the waters ebb so quickly have left vast swaths of Quebec tinder dry. Montrealers woke up Tuesday morning to the sun giving off a strange orange glare, dusky skies and an air-quality advisory. A whiff of smoke served as an indicator this wasn’t an ordinary smog day. Rather, this was the result of numerous forest fires raging hundreds of…

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