Rising Temperatures From Climate Change And Extreme Wildfires Go ‘Hand-In-Hand,’ Scientist Says
Researchers say it's clear that the deadly and destructive fires in Oregon, California and Washington are being fueled by climate change, but what does that really look like?
The average area burned by wildfires in California is five times greater than it was nearly 50 years ago, according to a paper written by climate scientists at Columbia University.
While wildfires are commonplace on the West Coast of the U.S., scientists say the formation of megafires is a recent phenomenon relative to the modern period.
, a climate scientist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and one
