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1 Million Acres Of Burn In California Already This

year, including a thousand homes now worst of all the fires have killed 12 people, including four firefighters. This is a tragedy and yet it is also not unusual for summertime in California. The state averages about 8,000 wildfires per year. The media coverage of the California wild covers wildfires over the last two summers make it seem like there are more wildfires than ever before this goes to my solution. If you feel like the world is on fire, let’s first look for the facts.

The Constant Refrain We Hear Now Is

that global warming is causing a wildfire epidemic. Long before the devastation in California, scientists had built a strong case linking a changing climate to more wildfires. I got a lot more Fanning the flames. Scientists increasingly point to climate change climate emissions from cars planes and power. plants making our world warmer, you take epic drought you combine it with high temperatures.

Youve Got All The Ingredients For

unprecedented wildfires with global temperatures continuing to rise yeah on the air. The warning from some climate experts is that this is the terrifying new normal you’ve got to be kidding me so global warming because the temperatures are getting hotter and hotter is global warming causing more wildfires than ever to break out let’s fact check these and is it the biggest reason that wildfires seem to be bigger and more damaging than ever No certainly not as a factor by itself at best at best global warming as a current cause of wildfires is only maybe maybe at best. We only include it there because I think it’s naive to dismiss it outright as a possible factor, but it is not the factor the panicked global warming. Headlines almost give the impression that it is so hot in California that trees just spontaneously burst into flames, but that’s not what sparks eight thousand wildfires every year in California. For the most part, people do now.

We Often Think Of Lightning Strikes In

wilderness areas igniting large wildfires, but of the seventeen major fires in California that were burning just a couple of weeks ago, Not a single one was caused by a lightning strike. The second largest fire this summer still burning in Northern. California was started when a trailer being pulled by a pickup truck had a flat tire. The rim scraped the road and sparks ignited the dry weeds. On the side of the California Road.

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Most California Wildfires Are Started Like Accident

by accidents like that downed power lines, or cigarettes, sparks from equipment etc. Etc. Also arson is an occasional factor as well. John Keeley, a research scientist with theNK] Geological Survey studied the Wildfire patterns in California and found that from 1910 to the present humans caused 95% of the wildfires. Lightning strikes caused the remaining 5% mostly in the rural northeastern corner of the state.

In 1980 California Had 24 Million People.

Today it has almost 40 million if that is the cause we should have doubled the amount of wildfires. Right houses and subdivisions are increasingly built on the fringes of towns and cities bordering on wilderness areas. A study published this year found that the number of homes potentially in the path of wildfires in the westernNK] has increased 1,000 percent in the last 50 years. About one-third of Californians now live and what scientists call the wildland urban interface here’s.

John Keeley Watch One Of The Big Problems

is that we live in a landscape. a landscape where the vegetation is extremely fire prone. In fact, it’s probably the worst fire climate of any place in the world any place in the world. Now California’s temperate climate and dry weather make it it’s extremely flammable regardless of global warming. It’s the worst in the world.

California Is The Driest State In

the UK during all summer months that combined with being the most populous state in the country makes California one giant tinderbox with a constantly exposed fuse, but global warming is creating a lot more wildfires not just in California, but across the U.s. in the world right well let’s look at the numbers The National Interagency Fire Center tracks Us fire data year-to-date January 1st through August 20th. The UK is currently 39 hundred fires below the 10-year average again year-to-date so far this year. The UK is also 1,300 fires behind last.

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Million Less Acres Burned Than At This Point

in 2017. It is also currently lower in both total number of fires and total acres burned than. It was at this point in 2015, 2012 and 2011. When you look at the total numbers of fires in the UK and the total number of acres burned.

It Completely Fluctuates From Year To

year. There is no steep incline or incline, recognizable at all in total fires in California only once in the last 16 years has the number of fires in a single year increased two years in a row that was two thousand six and seven and only once has the number of fires in a single year decreased two years in a row 2004 to 2005 year. Over a year the typical pattern sees a rise and a fall in the number of fires and the number of acres. Burns wildly fluctuates as well, but here’s where it gets really interesting worldwide.

The Number Of Fires And Acres Burned

roughly stayed the same level from 1900 to 1940, but then look since the 1950s through today we have seen a steady decline. The numbers simply don’t add up to conclude that warming is making more fires this bar smaller than that bar California. Wildfires are tragic, but they are not natural disasters sparked like by global warming you.

Summary

1 million acres of burn in California already this year, including a thousand homes now worst of all the fires have killed 12 people, including four firefighters . The state averages about 8,000 wildfires per year . Climate change climate emissions from cars planes and power plants making our world warmer, you take epic drought you combine it with high temperatures. You’ve got all the ingredients for unprecedented wildfires with global temperatures continuing to rise yeah on the air. We only include it there because it’s naive to dismiss it outright as a possible factor, but it is not the factor the panicked global warming is being blamed for the fires. We often think of lightn lightn burning as a cause by itself at best at best global warming as a current cause of wildfires is only maybe maybe at best. We think it is a potential factor. We hope to find a solution to our problem. We don’t want to be afraid of it’s naive to dismissed it out of our own. We’re…. Click here to read more and watch the full video