Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

2023 • 432 pages

Ratings8

Average rating4.4

15

CBC interview with “Fire Weather” author John Vaillant
Massive '21st-century' fires are here to stay — and we need to update how we fight them
https://cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/q-a-john-vaillant-wildfires-bc-nwt-1.6942576

the book is about one fire, and it zooms out on that to discuss

“what we're seeing are these massive, explosively energetic fires that are the result of centuries at this point of relentless CO2 generation from industrial fossil fuels ... The boreal is really going through a massive, slow-motion transformation right now and turning into a much more flammable place.” - John Vaillant, in above interview

my score - rounded up from 4 1/2
found a bit long

August 22, 2023