The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by ...
Jan 10, 2025 · And on Thursday, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and an ally of Mr. Trump, inserted himself into the debate over the role climate change plays in wildfires. “Climate change risk is real ...
This is how climate change contributed to the California wildfires
Jan 8, 2025 · Climate change has likely contributed to the unprecedented wildfires that are raging through Southern California. Five wildfires -- the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Woodley and Lidia fires -- were ...
Climate change: What role is it playing in the California fires - BBC
Jan 9, 2025 · Climate change has made the grasses and shrubs that are fuelling the Los Angeles fires more vulnerable to burning, scientists say. Rapid swings between dry and wet conditions in the region in...
How climate change worsened the most destructive wildfires in …
Jan 16, 2025 · The California fires erupted amid extremely dry conditions. UCLA scientists say extreme heat linked to climate change was a factor in the fires' intensity.
Climate Change Is Escalating California’s Wildfires
May 31, 2023 · CLIMATEWIRE | Climate change is a primary driver of escalating wildfires in California, with extreme temperatures and dry air spawning more intense burning, according to a UCLA study released...
Climate Change A Factor In Unprecedented LA Fires
Jan 14, 2025 · Finally, we limited our analysis and discussion above to the January 2025 fires in southern California, but for a comprehensive assessment of the diversity of ways in which climate change and other factors have impacted wildfire in California to date, we refer the reader to Williams et al. (2019) and MacDonald et al. (2023).
Climate change makes wildfires in California more explosive
Aug 30, 2023 · Now a new study, published Wednesday in Nature, uses a machine-learning model to show that climate change has nudged the risk of fast-spreading fires up by about 25% on average in...
Study Finds Climate Change to Blame For Record-Breaking California …
Aug 8, 2023 · Environmental observations indicate that summer burned areas in northern and central California have increased fivefold during 1996 to 2021 compared to 1971 to 1995. Further, 10 of the largest California wildfires have occurred …
California wildfires driven by rare overlap of climate change …
Jan 8, 2025 · Context: Climate change is intensifying hydroclimate extremes, both wet and dry, including weather whiplash events where California see-saws between the two. With dry conditions lasting later into the fall, that means Southern California is more vulnerable to dry high wind events, Swain noted.
Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California
Aug 30, 2023 · We use the uncovered relationships to estimate the changes in extreme daily wildfire growth risk under anthropogenic warming by subjecting historical fires from 2003 to 2020 to differing...