Vancouver Sun: Are the forest fires ripping through British Columbias vast stands of beetle-killed forests on the parched Interior plateau a portent of the growing economic consequences of impending climate change?
Theres compelling evidence they are, and that we should be paying close attention.
First, theres the trend to mild winters that permit the pine beetle, whose population is normally controlled by severe temperatures, to both grow explosively and broaden its range exponentially. In a scant decade,...