"...it's already doubled in the last 40 years...and we've published work that shows this is directly due to human caused climate change,” says Dr. [Mike] Flannigan [Professor with the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta and Canadian Forest Service researcher]."More: Forest fires and climate change - The Weather Network
"According to the World Meteorological Organization, 2010 is expected to be Canada's warmest year ever.
"Research shows that temperatures across Canada last winter and spring were an average four degrees above normal, making it the country's warmest-ever winter and spring.
"Arctic temperatures last winter averaged about six degrees above the normal temperature."
"Munich Re, one of the world’s largest re-insurers, has released its annual figures on worldwide losses from natural catastrophes, and has termed 2008 'one of the most devastating years on record,' partly due to the large number of tropical cyclones..."
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