Climate change boosts California wildfire risk by 25%
Global warming is ratcheting up the risk of extreme wildfire growth in California and will continue to do so for decades, even if emissions are reduced.
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Global warming is ratcheting up the risk of extreme wildfire growth in California and will continue to do so for decades, even if emissions are reduced.
Global warming is ratcheting up the risk of extreme wildfire growth in California and will continue to do so for decades, even if emissions are reduced.
A Riverside County, Calif., wildfire continued to burn out of control overnight and had swelled to 2,069 acres as of Saturday morning, while parts of a nearby residential community remained under evacuation orders.
An unusually cool spring has kept the copious quantities of snowpack that built up over the course of California’s stormy winter intact, generating cautious optimism among wildfire experts about what lies ahead this season. But they are also warning that such conditions can change in an instant — and that new growth nourished by a wet winter could quickly become…
After several atmospheric rivers and record rainfall, the heat is back and creating dense fuel for wildland fires. Cal fire says the conditions are particularly