{"id":186,"date":"2022-08-25T12:35:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T12:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/?page_id=186"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:58:50","slug":"2-16-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/endnotes\/how-our-planet-is-changing\/2-16-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"2.16 Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jo\u00eblle Gergis<\/a><\/p>\n

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    \nevidence for dangerous fire weather conditions<\/q> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, \u2018Technical summary\u2019<\/cite>, in Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Working Group III Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/span>, ed. P. R. Shukla et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press), https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg3\/about\/how-to-cite-this-report<\/a>; Seneviratne, S. I., et al., \u2018Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate\u2019<\/cite>, in Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/span>, ed. V. Masson-Delmotte et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press), https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/<\/a>; Ranasinghe, R., et al., \u2018Climate change information for regional impact and for risk assessment\u2019<\/cite>, in Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/span>, ed. V. Masson-Delmotte et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press), doi: 10.1017\/9781009157896.014.\n<\/p>\n

    \nhuman influence on fire weather conditions has already emerged<\/q> Abatzoglou, J. T., et al., \u2018Global emergence of anthropogenic climate change in fire weather indices\u2019<\/cite>, Geophysical Research Letters<\/span>, 46 (1), 2019: 326\u201336, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2018GL080959<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \nthe area affected at 3\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels<\/q> Ibid.\n<\/p>\n

    \n21 per cent of Australia\u2019s temperate forests burned<\/q> Boer, M. M., et al., \u2018Unprecedented burn area of Australian mega forest fires\u2019<\/cite>, Nature Climate Change<\/span>, 10 (3), 2020: 171\u20132, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41558-020-0716-1<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \nmegafires burnt a phenomenal 24 million hectares<\/q> Van der Velde, I. R., et al., \u2018Vast CO2<\/sub> release from Australian fires in 2019\u20132020 constrained by satellite\u2019<\/cite>, Nature<\/span>, 597 (7876), 2021: 366\u20139, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-021-03712-y<\/a>; Nolan, R. H., et al., \u2018What do the Australian Black Summer fires signify for the global fire crisis?\u2019<\/cite>, Fire<\/span>, 4 (4), 2021: Article 97, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/fire4040097<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \n3 billion animals were killed or displaced<\/q> Nolan et al., \u2018What do the Australian Black Summer fires signify for the global fire crisis?\u2019<\/cite>; Collins, L., et al., \u2018The 2019\u20132020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire\u2019<\/cite>, Environmental Research Letters<\/span>, 16 (4), 2021: Article 044029, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/abeb9e<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \nTemperatures in the Canadian town of Lytton<\/q> World Meteorological Organization, State of Global Climate 2021: WMO Provisional Report<\/span><\/cite>, 2021, https:\/\/library.wmo.int\/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=21982#.Yd-bCS0RrUI<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \na record 6.45 billion tonnes of CO2<\/sub><\/q> Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, \u2018Wildfires wreaked havoc in 2021, CAMS tracked their impact\u2019<\/cite>, 6 December 2021, https:\/\/atmosphere.copernicus.eu\/wildfires-wreaked-havoc-2021-cams-tracked-their-impact<\/a>; Friedlingstein, P., et al., \u2018Global carbon budget 2021\u2019<\/cite>, Earth System Science Data<\/span>, 14 (4), 2022: 1917\u20132005, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/essd-14-1917-2022<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \nover double the European Union\u2019s total carbon dioxide emissions<\/q> Friedlingstein, et al., \u2018Global Carbon Budget 2021\u2019<\/cite>.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Jo\u00eblle Gergis All online sources accessed on 15 January 2022 evidence for dangerous fire weather conditions Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, \u2018Technical summary\u2019, in Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Working Group III Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ed. P. R. Shukla et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-essay.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-186","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}