National Book Award finalist 'Fire Weather' explores the links between fire and our warming planet
Climate change is shaping fires present and future.
Host Peter O’Dowd speaks with journalist and author John Vaillant about his book “Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World,” which looks at the devastating 2016 fire in Fort McMurray Canada and what it shows about how climate change is shaping fires present and future.
John Vaillant is the author of “Fire Weather.” (Courtesy of John Sinal)
The cover of “Fire Weather” by John Vaillant. (Courtesy of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
Book excerpt: ‘Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World’
By John Vaillant
PROLOGUE
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