B.C. surpasses worst wildfire season on record — and threat is far from over

[ScienceRocks]

B.C. surpasses worst wildfire season on record — and threat is far from over

It's official: the B.C. Wildfire Service confirms the province is experiencing the worst wildfire season on record.


Wildfire Service information officer Kevin Skrepnek says an estimated 894,941 hectares of land has been charred in B.C. since April 1.

That eclipses the mark set in 1958, when 855,000 hectares burned.

"It's an accurate reflection of what we've had in terms of growth over the weekend," he said.

Burning down the entire west !

 

[Pete7469]

It's a good thing there are no records from prior to...

What?

1800?

 

[Zander]

It's obviously caused by man!! It's Delayed Onset Global Super Hot times (DogSht for short)!!

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

B.C. surpasses worst wildfire season on record — and threat is far from over

It's official: the B.C. Wildfire Service confirms the province is experiencing the worst wildfire season on record.


Wildfire Service information officer Kevin Skrepnek says an estimated 894,941 hectares of land has been charred in B.C. since April 1.

That eclipses the mark set in 1958, when 855,000 hectares burned.

"It's an accurate reflection of what we've had in terms of growth over the weekend," he said.

Burning down the entire west !

Surely it has to do with glowbull warming.....

 

[Old Rocks]

And the mental midgets are in full bay.

Just because it has been warmer and drier than usual for many years, just because the winters have been later and the springs sooner, just because this has allowed the bug population to kill millions of trees, why should any of that make the forests more vulnerable to fire?

Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests

John T. Abatzogloua,1 and A. Park Williamsb a Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844; and b Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964

Edited by Monica G. Turner, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, and approved July 28, 2016 (received for review May 5, 2016)

Increased forest fire activity across the western continental United States (US) in recent decades has likely been enabled by a number of factors, including the legacy of fire suppression and human settlement, natural climate variability, and human-caused climate change. We use modeled climate projections to estimate the contribution of anthropogenic climate change to observed increases in eight fuel aridity metrics and forest fire area across the western United States. Anthropogenic increases in temperature and vapor pressure deficit significantly enhanced fuel aridity across western US forests over the past several decades and, during 2000–2015, contributed to 75% more forested area experiencing high (>1 σ) fire-season fuel aridity and an average of nine additional days per year of high fire potential. Anthropogenic climate change accounted for ∼55% of observed increases in fuel aridity from 1979 to 2015 across western US forests, highlighting both anthropogenic climate change and natural climate variability as important contributors to increased wildfire potential in recent decades. We estimate that human-caused climate change contributed to an additional 4.2 million ha of forest fire area during 1984– 2015, nearly doubling the forest fire area expected in its absence. Natural climate variability will continue to alternate between modulating and compounding anthropogenic increases in fuel aridity, but anthropogenic climate change has emerged as a driver of increased forest fire activity and should continue to do so while fuels are not limiting.

http://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/climate-fire-paper-2016.pdf

An article from the National Academy of Sciences, full text at the link.

 

[bodecea]

There's nothing to see....all is well.