At least 99 individuals have perished as a result of the wildfires on the island of Maui.
Biden also announced in that statement that he had “ordered all available Federal assets on the Islands to help with [the] response,” including the Hawaiian National Guard, the U.S. Coast Guard, and U.S. Navy fleets, to assist with “fire suppression and search and rescue on the Island of Maui.
The climate crisis is “leading to these unpredictable or unforeseen combinations that we’re seeing right now and that are fueling this extreme fire weather,” Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz, a researcher at the University of British Columbia’s faculty of forestry, said toThose who are saying the climate crisis played no role in the wildfires on Maui are wrong, Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and chief scientist at the environmental nonprofit organization, The Nature Conservancy, tweeted.
“Amid the devastating Maui fires, I see many arguing, ‘it’s weather, arson — anything but climate change.’ Let’s set the record straight. Climate change doesn’t usually start the fires; but it intensifies them, increasing the area they burn + making them much more dangerous,”
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