A new study finds that human-caused climate change significantly increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry, and windy conditions that contributed to the recent devastating Southern California wildfires. The study attributes a 35% increase in the probability of high fire weather conditions and a 6% increase in its intensity to global warming.
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The team used observations of past weather and computer simulations that compared what happened this month to a what-if world without the 1.3 degrees Celsius of human-caused climate change that Earth has had since industrial times. That allowed them to come up with a calculation for warming's contribution to the disaster. It's a method that the.
Southern California has “some of the best climate, best weather on the planet — except when you get a combination of conditions that occurred here," Abatzoglou said. “You get the trifecta of dry windy and warm conditions. Those three things, in combination with dry fuels and ignitions, are the perfect recipe for fire disasters.”
Mike Flannigan, a Canadian fire scientist who wasn’t part of the research, said one key to him is the fire season extending longer and “increasing the chance a fire will start during peak Santa Ana winds.”
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