Study Reveals Global Increase in Hot, Dry Days Ideal for Wildfires
A new study indicates that the number of hot, dry days conducive to wildfires has nearly tripled globally in the past 45 years, primarily driven by human-made warming.
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Study finds warming world increases days when weather is prone to fires around the globe - Associated Press News
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Dangerous days have nearly tripled in past 45 years – and increase largely driven by human-made warming The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy – ideal to spark extreme wildfires – has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the globe, with the trend increasing even higher in the Americas, a new study shows. And more than half of that increase is caused by human-caused climate change, researchers calculated. Continue reading...
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The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy — ideal to spark extreme wildfires — has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the globe, with the trend increasing even higher in the Americas, a new study shows. And more than half of that increase is caused by human-caused climate change, researchers calculated. What this means is that as the world warms, more places across the globe are prone to go up in flames at the same time because of increasingly synchronous fire weather,
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