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What uptick? A 2016 study by the Royal Society has shown that 'Global burned area have dropped by about 25 percent over the previous 18 years'. 'Even in Califo
by vixen99 8y ago
What uptick? A 2016 study by the Royal Society has shown that 'Global burned area have dropped by about 25 percent over the previous 18 years'.
'Even in California, which for years has wrestled with fire devastation, a study in the International Journal of Wildland Fire found that the number of wildfires burning more than 300 acres per year has been tailing off since a peak in 1980.'
Stefan H. Doerr, Cristina Santín. Global trends in wildfire and its impacts: perceptions versus realities in a changing world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016; 371 (1696): 20150345
- mikec3010 8y agoThat must means more fuel is building up and burning all at once. Fires are an integral part of the forest ecosystem.
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- DoctorOetker 8y agoit may mean that, it must not. we should be looking at the full distribution of wildfires year by year, but I'm not a US resident so not very acquainted with looking up what where
- zaarn 8y agoLess fires != good. If you have less forest fires you build up fuel for the fire and the rare fire that DOES happen will be much more violent and extreme. Natural forest fires burn away a lot of fuel for the next fires so it's smaller.