Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Sep 1, 2025
#ClimateChange Is Making #Fire #Weather Worse for World’s #Forests
#ForestFires are on the rise globally. An increase in severe #fireweather is largely responsible.
“Climate change is loading the dice for extreme #fireseasons like we’ve seen,” said John Abatzoglou, a #climate #scientist at U of Cal Merced. “There are going to be more fires like this.”
Area of forest lost to fire 2023-2024 was at least 2x greater than in previous nearly two decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/climate/extreme-fire-weather-forests.html
https://archive.ph/8jln4
Climate Change Is Making Fire Weather Worse for World’s Forests

Forest fires are on the rise globally. An increase in severe fire weather is largely responsible.

The New York Times
Show threadDaniele de RigoJun 29, 2024

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A comment [4] by co-authors of [3]:

"forest fires in #Canada and other northern #BorealForests are a common and natural occurrence"

However, "higher temperatures caused by climate change dry out the landscape and make forests more susceptible to fire, driving longer #FireSeasons and larger forest fires. As larger forested areas burn, more #carbon is emitted into the atmosphere, further exacerbating climate change and contributing to even more fires as part of a fires-climate feedback loop"