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Human-induced climate change worsened Los Angeles wildfires, says study | World News – The Indian Express

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Without a faster transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels, California will continue to get hotter, drier and more flammable, says Clair Barnes of the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London.

The severity of the Los Angeles wildfires has been attributed to human-induced climate change and, if global warming reaches 2.6 degrees C above pre-industrial times, as expected by 2100, the fire-prone conditions will increase by 35 per cent, making the US city an even more dangerous tinderbox. This has been found by a group of 32 researchers from the US and Europe as part of World Weather Attribution, which analyses the impact of climate change on extreme events worldwide. The study was released on Tuesday.

The crisis in Los Angeles began in the morning of January 7, with a fire in the Pacific Palisades area. By the afternoon, it had scorched 1,262 acres and grown six times in size. Much worse was still to come; in the evening, a new fire was reported from Altadena, called the Eaton Fire. The strong Santa Ana winds and the dry vegetation spread the fires further and faster into urban areas. Since then, people have been battling the second most destructive fire year in California’s history, with 29 dead, 150,000 evacuated and 16,000 homes and other properties destroyed. The total economic losses are yet to be calculated but are expected to be north of $250 billion. The fires have still not been fully controlled.

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