WASHINGTON: In a first, US climate scientists have quantified the extent to which greenhouse gasses from the world's top fossil fuel companies have contributed to wildfires. Their analysis, published on Tuesday (May 16) in Environmental Research Letters, found that carbon dioxide and methane emissions from
WASHINGTON: In a first, US climate scientists have quantified the extent to which greenhouse gasses from the world's top fossil fuel companies have contributed to wildfires.
To date, the cost of rebuilding and increasing resilience has largely been footed by the general public,"so we wanted to better understand the role that fossil fuel industry emissions have had in altering the wildfire landscape", she said. The companies' contribution to planet-wide warming was then used to calculate how much they added to a rise in"vapour pressure deficit" or VPD - a measure of air's ability to draw water out of plants and soils - within the western North America region.
Other factors that increased fire danger conditions over the last century include aggressive fire suppression that led to large buildups of vegetation that normally would have burned in smaller regularly occurring fires, often managed by Indigenous communities.GROWING AREA OF RESEARCH
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