Fires that surpass records and climate emergency
- Climate change is increasingly affecting the weather of fires and the burned area. We are seeing truly devastating fires, and a study by Scientific Reports tells us that we have to prepare for more in the coming years.
If there are no major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, in the coming years there will be a fire that will exceed the record and then another, and then another… This is what they have said in the publication La Marea, from the study of the journal Scientific Reports. In Europe, in the summer and spring fires, an unprecedented change (1980-2000) related to the climate emergency is taking place in recent decades.
Heat waves are becoming more frequent and hydrological droughts are increasing; these two extreme phenomena caused by the climate emergency are very important factors in causing the devastating fires we see.
The study also points out that the forest and mountain area in central and southern Europe has increased the risk of fire the most. “This increase in extreme risk is relatively recent and at the most critical times exceeds the capabilities of European societies to cope with fire, increasing fire-related CO2 emissions.”
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