"We wouldn't be seeing this giant ramp up in fire activity as fast as it is happening without climate change," Park Williams, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, told the newspaper. Wildfire experts see the signature of climate change in the dryness, high heat, and longer fire season that have made these fires more extreme. Drought and high heat can kill trees and dry out dead grass, pine needles, and any other material on the bottom of the forest floor that act as kindling when a fire sweeps through a forest. In recent years, there's been an abundance of very dry fuel.
The other half are human-caused-frequently started by power lines, cigarettes, cars, camp fires, or arson. In the forests of the Western United States, half of wildfires are initiated by lightning. "Everybody who didn't believe it in Greenville is now a climate refugee."Īs The New York Times explained last month: Astonishing satellite photos show how the Dixie Fire - the largest wild blaze ever recorded in California - wiped the historic town of Greenville off the map. "It's the climate change," Machlan added. "After Paradise went up a couple of years ago, it was really just a matter of time until it happened to more mountain communities." "I had a feeling that this was going to happen this year," he told the Los Angeles Times, citing the area's dry conditions. #dixiefire\u201d - StuPal Machlan, who moved to Greenville in 2007, referenced the Camp Fire that ravaged Paradise, California in 2018, killing dozens of people.
My heart is broken for this beautiful little town.
\u201cI'd say the majority of downtown Greenville is completely destroyed.
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