Raging Canadian wildfire points to global warming ************************************************* CBS News 19 hours ago Sign in to like Reblog on Tumblr Tweet The wildfire that has devastated the remote Canadian town of Fort McMurray has caused an estimated $7.3 billion in insurance-related losses, the most from that type of disaster since 1970. Experts say the size of the blaze, along with an increase in the number of wildfires in the U.S., are evidence of global warming. "This is one of the parts of the world that has seen warmer and warmer winters and accelerated springs and drier conditions, which are linked to increasing atmospheric greenhouse gasses and the long-term warming that we've seen," said Glen MacDonald, a professor of geography at University of California at Los Angeles, in . In the U.S., wildfires have burned 1.5 million acres so far this year, compared with 316,000 in 2015, according to the Insurance Information Institute (III). ...