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Climate Change & Wildfires Explained

in Less Than Three Minutes

White House    5 August 2014

 

 

 

 

White House video    5 August 2014

 

President Obama's Science Advisor, Dr. John Holdren,

explains in less than three minutes

how the growing number of intense wildfires

are linked in part, to climate change.

 

Learn more at http://wh.gov/climate-change

 

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDsNq-rVplE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wildfires > Canada > human-driven climate change        USA

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/22/
1195154996/some-of-canadas-wildfires-likely-made-worse-
by-human-driven-climate-change

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The climate science behind wildfires:

why are they getting worse? – video explainer        UK

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/aug/20/
the-climate-science-behind-wildfires-why-are-they-getting-worse-video-explainer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

climate change link to more and bigger wildfires        USA

 

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/27/
1019898087/climate-change-wildfires

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 growing threat of climate change        UK

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/11/
the-future-has-arrived-these-explosive-fires-are-our-climate-change-wakeup-call

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

overwinter ‘zombie’ fires        UK

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/19/
climate-change-could-make-overwinter-zombie-fires-more-common

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

USA > climate change        UK

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/13/
us-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-climate-change-environmentalists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

climate crisis        UK

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/23/
greta-thunberg-fridays-for-future-california-wildfires-video

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/24/
rising-risk-of-wildfires-across-uk-from-climate-crisis-scientists-warn

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/30/
climate-crisis-americans-wildfires-hurricanes-2020

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/12/
california-oregon-washington-fires-explained-climate-change

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/28/
california-wildfires-explained-climate-change

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The surprising connection

between Arctic ice and Western wildfires

 

The ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is shrinking

as the climate gets hotter.

 

Scientists are finding

it could be linked

to weather that's helping fuel disasters.

 

Fire and Ice

 

The planet’s ice is fundamentally tethered

to weather patterns that stretch across the globe.

 

Scientists are finding that as the climate changes,

that connection could be helping fuel disasters.

 

https://apps.npr.org/
arctic-ice-melting-climate-change/western-us-wildfires.html - April 19, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

economic toll of climate change        USA

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/
business/economy/canada-wildfires-economy.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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