Comments by "Darlene" (@darlene2709) on "Nightly News Full Broadcast - June 7" video.
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@pacerts2911 Did you finish your research into the cause of each of the 400 wildfires currently burning in Canada? Like every other year, some fires are caused by man and some are from natural causes.
"Dry, hot weather breeds more lightning. In a normal season, half of Canada's wildfires are started by lightning, but those fires account for more than 85% of wildfire destruction. The other half are human-caused.
"Most fires in the boreal forest of northern Canada are started by lightning. A one-degree Celsius increase in temperature amounts to about 12% more lightning. So the warmer it gets as the climate heats up, the more triggers there are for fires to burn," said Struzik.
In Quebec, for example, fires were sparked by lightning, but officials in Alberta have said that the cause of fires there is currently unknown. Elsewhere in the country, these fires have been human-caused in various ways from discarded cigarette butts to sparks from passing trains." PBS News
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