California's wildfire smoke and climate change

California's wildfire smoke and climate change: 4 things to know

California wildfires every year emit as much carbon as almost 2 million cars, posing a threat to efforts to battle climate change.

Wildfires & Climate Change | California Air Resources Board

Climate change, primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels, is increasing the frequency and severity of wildfires not only in California but also all ...

Climate change makes wildfires in California more explosive - NPR

That's compared to a time before humans heated up Earth's atmosphere by burning vast amounts of fossil fuels. Sponsor Message. "We're seeing the ...

California Prepares for Increased Wildfire Risk to Air Quality From ...

Wildfires, a longstanding and frequent threat to California, are expected to increase in intensity and frequency due to climate change.

Wildfire smoke - OEHHA - CA.gov

As a warming climate fuels wildfires in California, human and environmental exposures to harmful air pollutants are increasing. Wildfire smoke ...

Wildfires and Climate Change - C2ES

Research shows that changes in climate create warmer, drier conditions. Increased drought, and a longer fire season are boosting these increases in wildfire ...

Wildfire smoke exposure under climate change: impact on ...

Wildfire activity has been increasing over the past several decades and is likely to continue to do so as climate change progresses, which, combined with a ...

Climate Change Is Escalating California's Wildfires

CLIMATEWIRE | Climate change is a primary driver of escalating wildfires in California, with extreme temperatures ...

The Burden of Wildfire Smoke on Respiratory Health in California at ...

Climate change is leading to an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including wildfires. Wildfire smoke is a ...

Wildfires | Environmental Defense Fund

Climate change affects wildfires by exacerbating the hot, dry conditions that help these fires catch and spread.

California's wildfire smoke and climate change: four things to know

Wildfires and climate change are locked in a vicious circle: Fires worsen climate change, and climate change worsens fires.

Study Finds Climate Change to Blame For Record-Breaking ...

Study Finds Climate Change to Blame For Record-Breaking California Wildfires · Record-breaking forest fires during California's summer months ...

Wildfire climate connection

Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires ...

Wildfires are erasing California's climate gains, research shows

What is often ignored is that, fueled by climate change's higher temperatures and drier conditions, the wildfires also contribute to climate ...

Wildfire Smoke and Health - City of San Francisco

Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of wildfires in the Western United States. Although San Francisco is less directly ...

Climate Change Has Made California's Wildfires Five Times Bigger

New research finds that the area burned by wildfires during summer in California has increased fivefold since 1971 because of more arid ...

California's greenhouse gas reductions could be wiped out by 2020 ...

Wildfires, in turn, release GHG emissions that can contribute to climate change. California experienced its most disastrous wildfire year on ...

The Climate Connections of a Record Fire Year in the U.S. West

To put the carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires into perspective, September 2020 data from the Global Fire Emissions Database show that ...

Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in ...

Among the many processes important to California's diverse fire regimes, warming-driven fuel drying is the clearest link between anthropogenic ...

California wildfire smoke contributes to a positive atmospheric ...

As a result of climate change, land use change, and forest management, the frequency of wildfires in California has trended upward from 100 ...