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How Climate Change Is Making Wildfire Season Worse, Here and Now, July 27, 2017 This summer there have been dozens of fires burning in the West, which has been experiencing record-high temperatures.
Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with Gary Ferguson (@GaryAFerguson), author of the book “Land on Fire,” about why wildfires have been getting hotter and burning longer in recent years.
Interview Highlights
On how much worse wildfires are because of climate change
“The most comprehensive study to come out last year, kind of a collaborative effort between Columbia University and the University of Idaho, suggested that when you pull out all the natural climate change factors — things like ocean circulation patterns and whatnot — human-caused climate change is probably responsible for doubling the number of acres burned since 1985. So it’s a very, very fast change, and it looks like from all the evidence out there that this is just simply going to be worse before it gets better.”…….more http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/07/27/land-on-fire-gary-ferguson
How Climate Change Is Making Wildfire Season Worse, Here and Now, July 27, 2017 This summer there have been dozens of fires burning in the West, which has been experiencing record-high temperatures.
