Sentences with phrase «longer wildfire season»

The administration should focus on the real science of reducing our carbon output to address the challenges communities already face from sea - level rise, extreme storms, longer droughts, longer wildfire seasons, and other environmental disasters.

«[C] ommunities across the Nation are already experiencing a range of climatic changes, including more frequent and extreme precipitation events, longer wildfire seasons, reduced snowpack, extreme heat events, increasing ocean temperatures, and rising sea levels,» the report says.

Not exact matches

Wildfire seasons all over the planet are lasting longer than they have in the past and burning wider swaths of land, and Earth's changing climate is to blame, according to a new report.

«Over the past few decades, wildfire suppression costs have increased as fire seasons have grown longer and the frequency, size, and severity of wildfires has increased,» Jones said.

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.

When compared with the 1970s, the average annual Western U.S. wildfire season is now 105 days longer, has three times as many large fires (larger than 1000 acres), and burns more than six times as many acres.5

The impacts of climate change mean that the threshold will likely be crossed more often in the coming century as wildfire season lasts longer and

Overall, the West is seeing trends toward more large wildfires burning more acres with longer fire seasons.

And wildfire season is now an average of 105 days longer than it was in the 1970s.

The impacts of climate change mean that the threshold will likely be crossed more often in the coming century as wildfire season lasts longer and sparks more large fires.

The western U.S. has seen wildfire season stretch even longer with the season lasting 75 days longer than it did in the 1970s.

In Alaska, wildfire season is 35 days longer than it was in the 1950s, according to a Climate Central analysis.

The Western wildfire season is 105 days longer than it was 45 years ago as climate change fuels more and bigger blazes.

That same report found that Alaskan wildfire season is 40 percent longer as well.

All told, wildfire season is 105 days longer than it was in the 1970s, due largely to rising temperatures.

The physical evidence becomes more dramatic every year: forests retreating, animals moving north, glaciers melting, wildfire seasons getting longer, higher rates of droughts, floods, and storms — five times as many in the 2000s as in the 1970s.

That makes this start to wildfire season in the boreal forest a punctuation mark on the longer term trend of ever increasing northern wildfires, one that's expected to continue.

The fire season is 105 days longer than it was in the 1970, and is approaching the point where the notion of a fire season will be made obsolete by the reality of year - round wildfires across the West.

Graphs show a) Global average wildfire season length (expressed as a standardised anomaly), and b) Total global average area experiencing «long» wildfire seasons (as a % of global vegetated area)-- both from 1979 to 2013.

And climate change will make matters worse: hotter temperatures and longer dry seasons in summer create conditions that can lead to more frequent wildfires.

For example, in South America, the average wildfire season is now 33 days longer compared to 1979 for these habitats.

In some regions, prolonged periods of high temperatures associated with droughts contribute to conditions that lead to larger wildfires and longer fire seasons.

He pointed to extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy, the longer Western wildfire season, and temperature records over the last decade.

Local wildfire seasons vary by location, but have almost universally become longer over the past 40 years.

This year has a long way to go to beat the record - setting year of 1958 when wildfires burned 2.1 million acres, but with fire danger forecast to be extreme over the coming days and August typically the most fire - laden month in British Columbia, the season is far from over.

In a statement, Jennifer Jones, a spokesperson for the Forest Service said fire suppression has become more difficult due to a number of factors including the need to protect the increasing number of homes in wildfire areas, hazardous fuel buildups, drought and longer fire seasons.

Longer and hotter summers take a toll on health and air quality, and enhance the wildfire season.

Vegetation and soils dry out earlier, setting the stage for longer and more damaging wildfire seasons.

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

Wildfire activity in western North America has increased significantly during the past three decades with longer fire seasons, more wildfire, increased home losses, and more lives Wildfire activity in western North America has increased significantly during the past three decades with longer fire seasons, more wildfire, increased home losses, and more lives wildfire, increased home losses, and more lives at risk.

Climate change impacts — ranging from more frequent and severe storms, floods, heat waves, and wildfires, to increased risk of asthma attacks and longer allergy seasons — are already affecting our security, our economy, and our communities.

Jones says the state will be reviewing new computer models to take into account climate change as the wildfire season presses on unusually long this year.