Climate change is making North America warmer and drier, creating more favorable conditions for wildfires – this is well-established at a continental scale, but a new paper added strong evidence at a regional scale.
A new study found that human-driven climate change was the main driver of worsening ‘fire weather’ – hot, dry, and windy conditions that help wildfires start and spread – in Western North America over the last 50 years.
The contributions from human-driven climate change are given as a range; most of that range suggests human-driven climate change is entirely responsible, but even the lowest end of the range shows it’s mostly responsible (81% or more).
According to scientists we interviewed, these results may suggest that in the absence of human-driven climate change, natural atmospheric conditions would have decreased fire weather in the region over that 50 year period.
This new paper adds to a growing body of evidence showing that climate change is worsening wildfires – and the conditions driving them – in Western North America.
We know this. Dis- and misinformation, a lot of it from the US itself, has been denying and trying to poke holes in it for ages. Too many people just won't believe that Global Climate Catastrophe is a fact because Big Oil and Big tech shit in their brains.
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Human-driven climate change largely responsible for last 50 years of worsening fire weather in Western North America, new study shows
https://science.feedback.org/human-driven-climate-change-largely-responsible-last-50-years-worsening-fire-weather-western-north-america-new-study-shows/cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/22839206
We know this. Dis- and misinformation, a lot of it from the US itself, has been denying and trying to poke holes in it for ages. Too many people just won't believe that Global Climate Catastrophe is a fact because Big Oil and Big tech shit in their brains.