The forest fires that destroyed the Los Angeles region last month were driven by the weather models that fed climate change for months, according to scientists who study meteorological factors behind them.
Research released Last week, through World Weatherrtive, cooperation among scientists who studies the effect of climate change on harsh weather events, that the phenomenon of pre -human warming for humans made the conditions that pushed the fires of the Los Angeles region around it 35 % more likely.
the Palisades and Eaton fires Demolish a total of 37,000 acres. They are the second and third destructive forest fires in the history of California, respectively, after the 2018 camp fire.
Santa Anna helped the winds of Stock. The emerging winds in the great basin, some of it exceeds 150 miles per hour, fell Sierra Nevada to the Los Angeles region, just as the Palisades fire began to spread in the Santa Monica mountains on January 7. The wind arrived after a year when the drought It follows periods of intense rain – The ideal conditions for intense forest firesAlexander Geronv, climate scientist at the Scripps Institute of Oceanic Sciences at the University of California, said San Diego.
“We had no great precipitation, and we were at the third important event in Santa Anna for this year,” said Jeshonov. “That is the wind is on the specified date. It is the late rain.”
Heavy rains in the past winter The growth of the thick plant in southern California, then dry drying for a long time starting in October the dry brush, created forest fires. Climate change played a role in both phenomena: the events of the severe atmosphere in California It becomes more common With global temperatures, the warmer atmosphere is more moisture. Although drought is a natural part of the California climate, climate change also makes drought periods The longest and more severeAccording to the Ministry of Water Resources in California.
Girchonov said that for some parts of Southern California, the wet winter season got the last beginning of this year more than 150 years ago from keeping the books.
“I don’t think we adapt to the climate we have, not to mention climate change, which is expected to make it more volatile in terms of the variation of the total rain that we get from year to year.” He said, adding: “We really need to control ignition, We need to be very studied on how to expand the growing population to those descending countries. “
Throughout the western United States, the wildfire season became more intense and longer for up to three weeks, according to The study was published last year By Central Climate Research Organization.
“I really think we need to reconcile with the fact that Wildfire is part of this life here in California, and we need to learn how to control it from spreading to places where people are subjected to harm,” said Jersonov.
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