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Book excerpt: "Fire Weather" by John Vaillant

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" Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World " by John Vaillant is a 2023 National Book Award finalist.

The book recounts the rise of climate science and the increasing dangers from climate change.

Read an excerpt below, about a wildfire that decimated Fort McMurray , Alberta .

"Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World" by John Vaillant .

The book is published by Vintage Books, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group , a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

The author says the fire in Fort McMurray , Alberta , is "re-writing the book".

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60

Informative language

54

Neutral language

52

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semi-formal

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English

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47

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not offensive

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short-lived

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