Wed Jul 12, 2023 – 1:21 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Canadian experts have found that the deadly 2021 heat wave in British Columbia that is said to have claimed more than 600 lives was not solely caused by “climate change,” despite mainstream media reports claiming as much at the time.
“Climate change was not the sole cause of this event,” wrote Canada’s Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, according to research obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter. “While no single comprehensive and quantitative theory can be universally applied to all extreme temperature events, heat waves in summer can often be attributed to blocking highs, a high pressure system that is stationary.”
The six-day long heat wave in British Columbia is blamed for 619 deaths and numerous forest fires.
It saw the highest temperatures ever recorded in Canada, with Lytton, B.C. having a high of 47.7 degrees Celsius. This broke the previous record of 45 degrees in Yellowgrass, Saskatchewan, on July 5, 1937.
While the bulletin stated that the cause of the heat was mainly the pressure system, it maintained that “increasing background temperatures due to anthropogenic climate change made this heat wave hotter and therefore more extreme.”
“However, the record
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