Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on Climate Change and Wildfire

About this episode

The episode discusses the increasing intensity and frequency of wildfires in relation to climate change with author John Vaillant.

Wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent, and destructive as the climate heats up. Drilled reporter Royce Kurmelovs and Canadian author John Vallaint, author of Fire Weather , discuss the climate-fire nexus.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Royce Kurmelovs

Guest: John Vaillant

Topics covered

• climate change
• wildfires
• environment
• climate-fire nexus
• intensity
• destruction

Keywords

• wildfires
• climate change
• Fire Weather
• Royce Kurmelovs
• John Vaillant
• climate-fire nexus
• environmental science

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Fire Weather

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