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One billion dollars.

That’s how much insurance payments could reach this year for Alberta farmers hit by drought. We’re talking almost all of Alberta’s grain farmers — 80 per cent of them.

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And we have yet to add up the cost of the destruction caused by forest fires that grew so large, so numerous and so quickly this summer, that we had to call in help from the United States, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

This doesn’t include the other natural disasters including hailstorms, floods and the chronic pine beetle infestation.

You’d think Mother Nature is out to get us.

And you couldn’t blame her.

When it comes to these disasters, we are not just the victim, we are more than likely the culprit.

Nobody can say for sure that any particular forest fire or flood or drought is caused by human-induced climate change, but these little bits of Armageddon are just what climate scientists are saying we should expect to see from global warming.