Noooo… Not Smokey :'(
What is going on with these California Fires
Climate change is expected to alter the geographic distribution of wildfire, a complex abiotic process that responds to a variety of spatial and environmental gradients. How future climate change may alter global wildfire activity, however, is still largely unknown. As a first step to quantifying potential change in global wildfire, we present a multivariate quantification of environmental drivers for the observed, current distribution of vegetation fires using statistical models of the relationship between fire activity and resources to burn, climate conditions, human influence, and lightning flash rates at a coarse spatiotemporal resolution (100 km, over one decade). We then demonstrate how these statistical models can be used to project future changes in global fire patterns, highlighting regional hotspots of change in fire probabilities under future climate conditions as simulated by a global climate model. Based on current conditions, our results illustrate how the availability of resources to burn and climate conditions conducive to combustion jointly determine why some parts of the world are fire-prone and others are fire-free. In contrast to any expectation that global warming should necessarily result in more fire, we find that regional increases in fire probabilities may be counter-balanced by decreases at other locations, due to the interplay of temperature and precipitation variables. Despite this net balance, our models predict substantial invasion and retreat of fire across large portions of the globe. These changes could have important effects on terrestrial ecosystems since alteration in fire activity may occur quite rapidly, generating ever more complex environmental challenges for species dispersing and adjusting to new climate conditions. Our findings highlight the potential for widespread impacts of climate change on wildfire, suggesting severely altered fire regimes and the need for more explicit inclusion of fire in research on global vegetation-climate change dynamics and conservation planning.
There is nothing normal about fires taking place in 17 different areas within the same state over a period of a year and 12 of which being linked to people starting them and 7 of those 12 already going to court.
Nothing normal about that at all.
Suburban and metropolitan California deserves to burn in fires hotter than that of the Sun. The rest is beautiful American clay that should be spared.
Is English not your first language? Decimated is entirely appropriate.
What's fo sure is that is serves as a great distraction.
I might take climate change more seriously if the "solutions" to it didn't involve a wealth transfer to third world nations in exchange for imaginary "carbon credits". The only constant is change, otherwise you're just falling for the reactionary hoax.
Probably a plot by the Jews.
God hates Califags