Executive orders and announcements by President Trump have put billions of dollars in U.S. climate commitments into question.
Although pieces of the analysis include degrees of uncertainty, researchers said trends show climate change increased the likelihood of the fires.
New studies are finding the fingerprints of climate change in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires, which made some of extreme climate conditions — higher temperatures and drier weather — worse.
The fires, likely to be the costliest in world history, were made about 35% more likely due to the 1.3°C of global warming that has occurred since preindustrial times.
For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.
Global warming caused mainly by burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the recent deadly fires around Los Angeles about 35 times more likely to occur, an international team of scientists concluded in a rapid attribution analysis released Tuesday.
The analysis by the World Weather Attribution's climate scientists links the fires that broke out on January 7 to man-made climate change, which has extended the fire-prone conditions by an additional 23 days each year in California.
Global warming intensified conditions that fueled one of city’s worst disasters, scientists say - Anadolu Ajansı
The devastating Los Angeles fires have been a grim reminder of America’s homeowners insurance crisis as climate change intensifies potential property damage and insurers scramble to price rising risk.
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The recent wildfires in California were worsened by climate change, a report found. The study, released Tuesday by World Weather Attribution, found that human-caused climate change increased the