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A group of UCLA climate scientists said in an analysis this week that if you break down the reasons behind the extreme dryness of vegetation in Southern California when the fires started, global ...
Wildfires in Los Angeles are being driven by climate change, not political mismanagement, and California's leaders have taken meaningful steps to address the issue, but the sheer scale of the ...
Climate change in California has resulted in higher than average temperatures, leading to increased occurrences of droughts and wildfires. [3] Over the next few decades in California , climate change is predicted to further reduce water availability, increase wildfire risk, decrease agricultural productivity , and threaten coastal ecosystems. [ 4 ]
Other research has found that climate change has become the dominant driver of worsening droughts in the western U.S., that wildfire weather is occurring more frequently, and that global warming ...
Stanford Earth System Science Professor Noah Diffenbaugh stated that atmospheric conditions for California wildfires are expected to worsen in the future because of the effects of climate change in California and that "what we're seeing over the last few years in terms of the wildfire season in California [is] very consistent with the ...
According to statistics published by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), a total of 7,127 wildfires burned a total of 324,917 acres (131,489 hectares) in the U.S. state of California in 2023. This was below the state's five-year average of 1,722,059 acres (696,893 ha) burned during the same period.
“Here’s the paradox: Climate change is humanly induced and is making the fire season far worse,” says Stephanie Pincetl, a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and ...
Five of the twenty largest wildfires in California history were part of the 2020 wildfire season. An August 19, 2020 satellite image of the wildfires burning in Northern California, covering a significant portion of California and nearby states. 2020 was a record-setting year for wildfires in California.