| Abstract: |
As this year's fire season rages on, residents of California and other arid states should brace themselves for possibly even worse conflagrations. According to a recent study, catastrophic fires such as these will become ever more common as a result of global warming. “Warmer, drier and windier weather promotes wildfires, and these are all conditions that will result from climate change,” says researcher Margaret Torn of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. |
