Although pieces of the analysis include degrees of uncertainty, researchers said trends show climate change increased the likelihood of the fires.
Executive orders and announcements by President Trump have put billions of dollars in U.S. climate commitments into question.
A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires.
Global warming caused mainly by burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the recent deadly fires around Los Angeles about 35 times more likely to occur, an international team of scientists concluded in a rapid attribution analysis released Tuesday.
A new attribution analysis found that climate heating caused by burning fossil fuels significantly increased the likelihood of extreme fire conditions.
Climate change made the deadly Los Angeles wildfires more likely. And, the worst is yet to come - The hot, dry and windy weather that stoked this month’s destructive blazes will worsen without a transition away from atmosphere-warming fossil fuels,
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... battle the Kenneth fire in the West Hills section of Los Angeles earlier this month. The state’s deadly wildfires were made worse ...
Global warming intensified conditions that fueled one of city’s worst disasters, scientists say - Anadolu Ajansı
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The hot, dry and windy conditions that preceded the Southern California fires were about 35% more likely because of climate change, according to a new report.
New studies are finding the fingerprints of climate change in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires, which made some of extreme climate conditions — higher temperatures and drier weather — worse.