10 Disastrous Consequences Of Man-Made Climate Change

Wildfires have long been a problem throughout human history so they are nothing new. The problem resulting from climate change is the frequency and intensity of those fires. Regardless of how one begins, whether it’s a cigarette butt thrown into the brush or via a lightning strike, wildfires have been growing out of control in recent years.

The main culprit is easy enough to identify: dry brush burns quickly and easily spread, but the reason there is so much of it is directly related to anthropogenic global climate change.

In the Western United States, the wildfire season has grown longer and the number of them has increased. This is the result of higher temperatures in the spring and summer, which leads to dryer vegetation. The dry vegetation is little more than kindling, which ignites and spreads further and faster than firefighting teams can control.

During the 1980s, there were approximately 140 wildfires that spread across more than 1,000 acres. Between 2000 and 2012, that number had increased to around 250.