According to the EPA, wildfires over the past 40 years are slightly down. Can you point to different data that ties these wildfires to climate change?
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
Actual data: the link you posted shows a decrease in fires overall, but the size and damage of them increasing. I guess when the fires are so big and start merging your overall count goes down.
Is your assertion that climate change is causing bigger fires, or could there be other contributing factors ie controlled burning, development etc?
And up until last week, almost no one alive in BC had lived through record-setting temperatures, most of which were set in the 1930s.
It just seems so counter productive to point to every single weather event now and say "see? climate-change". That's why people ignore the issue. They're inundated with it.
For singular events like this, there simply isnt evidence either way... only whatever intuition your predisposition tells you makes sense.
Personally, I bet 50-50 we'll surpass these records in the next 20 years.