Sentences with phrase «intense wildfire season»

Climate Goals Intense Wildfire Season Expected in West U.S. Hurricane Drought «A Matter of Luck» The Surprising Link Between Fjords and Carbon

This year's intense wildfire season turned California's forests into carbon polluters.

For example, the extreme drought that gripped Indonesia during summer and fall (leading to an intense wildfire season) was caused by a dearth of rainfall linked to El Niño and higher temperatures linked to climate change, one study in the report found.

This is exactly the kind of intense wildfire season we can expect as the climate changes thanks to our continuing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Climate scientists observe impacts like sea - level rise, longer and more intense wildfire seasons, and devastating droughts (just to name a few).

Not exact matches

Murthy, confirmed by the Senate in December, said climate change leads to more intense heat waves, more particulates from wildfires clouding the atmosphere, longer allergy seasons and, in turn, more asthma attacks.

The West is ablaze as the summer wildfire season has gotten off to an intense start.

For instance, according to one 2007 study, a warming planet may mean an increased growing season in Greenland; but it also means water shortages, more frequent and more intense wildfires and expanding deserts.

Intense, destructive wildfires are burning throughout the state, and while September and October are the peak of the typical fire season in California, the number of fires exhibiting extreme behavior and «dangerous» rates of spread has been far higher than usual due to the ubiquity of tinder - dry, drought - cured brush and trees.