Wildfires driven more by lowered precipitation than elevated temperatures or reduced snowpack
Posted 06 Sep 2018 / 0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western US forest wildfire activity”
There’s a little bit of a “choose your climate change poison” to this study, but it is interesting to be able to isolate the specific climate-driven effects that are causing more wildfires to crop up.
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