UC Irvine. (2023, June 12). Human caused climate change to balance for increase in California wildfires. Retrieved from https://news.uci.edu/2023/06/12/human-caused-climate-change-to-blame-for-increase-in-californias-wildfires/
Scientists from UC Irvine conducted a study, finding that nearly all the recent summer wildfires were caused by human caused climate change. They modeled past natural wildfire activity and then factored in human climate change effects to predict future forest burn areas. Scientific evidence points to the role of anthropogenic factors, such as fossil fuel emissions, in exacerbating these fire-prone conditions, emphasizing the urgent need for climate action to halt the escalating risks for deadly wildfires in California. The article goes on to discuss that the average summer burn area in forests in northern and central California has increased fivefold between 1996 and 2021 compared to between 1971 and 1995, pointing straight to human’s to mitigate these seemingly yearly disasters.
Wildfires are obviously bad for the communities directly affected however in addition the threat of wildfires causes insurance rates to rise which impacts everyone in the state. As dejecting as these wildfires every year canceling sports or work throughout California are, this study does point to some hope for the future. As outlined, if wildfires are caused by humans then humans can drastically limit the spread by limiting their overall footprint. The scientists in this study suggest reducing carbon emissions, pursuing sustainable transportation and sustainable energy production can lead to a less deadly impact of wildfires in California.
I agree that humans need to be more aware of their emissions and make choices to help our environment rather than hurt it in order to prevent wildfires. Do you think that states should be making efforts to make public transportation clean? The emissions hurting our environment dot just come from cars but also public trains and buses. How can we make efforts to protect land from human footprints to reduce the risk of fires? Drought will continue to be a problem but how can individuals, counties, states, and the rest of the country combat these natural disasters?
Thanks for reading! Regarding wildfires, humans can conduct controlled burns to mitigate the risks of wildfires.
I agree that the rapid increase in wildfires is a result of our reliance to carbon emissions. This is more than just an individual use of emissions it goes further to companies and their negligence in changing their method of energy as they’re a majority of our carbon footprint.
thanks for reading.
I agree that the the severity in which the impacts climate change have had are due to human impact. Do you believe that most of human impact on climate change is caused by accident or that they’re aware of their wrong doings, or better yet, a mixture of both?
Thanks for reading. Good question, rather than if it’s an accident or not, I think the vast majority of wildfires are caused by arrogance and a lack of knowledge of the surrounding ecosystem.
Without a doubt our reliance on carbon has caused a great amount of climate change. Do you think that the government needs to intervene so our climate can be restored, or do you believe that individual participation is enough.
Thanks for reading. The goverment without a doubt needs to intervene. They need to conduct preventitive measures like controlled burns in addition to educating the public in order to prevent these fires from occuring accidentally.