Washington – A new study was found in the eighties of the last century due to the climate change caused by a person and people approaching Windlands.
A study in the journal Science is looking at global forest fires, not by burning acre, which is the most common measurement stick, but it is difficult to calculate the economic and human damages they cause. The study concluded that there was “an escalation linked to the climate from the catastrophic forest fires.”
A team of Australian, American and German firefighters calculated the 200 most harmful fires since 1980 based on the percentage of damage to the country’s gross domestic product at that time, taking into account inflation. The author of the study, the author of the study, Calum Knngham, PyrogeGraPHER at the Fire Center at the University of Tasmania in Australia, said that the frequency of these events increased about 4.4 times from 1980 to 2023.
“It shows beyond the suspicion that we have a major fire crisis on our hands,” Koningham said.
About 43 % of the 200 most harmful fires occurred in the last ten years of the study. In the eighties of the last century, the average globe was two of these catastrophic fires per year and hit several times a year. From 2014 to 2023, the average world reached nearly nine annually, including 13 in 2021. He pointed out that the number of these destroyed hell increased sharply in 2015, which “coincided with increasingly increasing climatic conditions.” Knngham said that despite the end of the study date in 2023, the past two years have been more extremist.
Europe and North America perform the number of these harmful fires. It is especially worse in The Mediterranean Sea around Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal And in the western United States across California, due to the climate of sudden drought, I worsened with global warmingKnngham said.
The researchers also found three times in the number of times in which one fire killed at least 10 people, such as 2018 Paradise Fire, 2023 Lawyina fire And those in Los Angeles in 2025.
Caningham said that researchers often look at the number of acres that burn fire as a measure of measurement, but he called it this defect because it does not actually appear to affect people, as the region does not matter as much as the economy and life. He said that the Hawaiian fire was not great, but he burned many buildings and killed many people, so it was more important than one in populated areas.
“We need to target fires that concern. These are the fires that cause great environmental destruction because they burn extensively,” said Caningham.
But it is difficult to obtain economic data with many countries that maintain this special information, which prevents global trends and aspirations. Therefore, Cunningham and his colleagues managed to obtain more than 40 years of global economic history from the insurance giant, and then combine them with the public database from International disaster databaseWhich is not complete but collected by the Catholic University of Loofan in Belgium.
The study looked at the “Weather of Fire”, which is hot, dry and stormy, making severe fires more likely and more dangerous and found that these conditions are increasing, creating a connection to burning coal, oil and natural gas.
“We first got this relationship that has all caused all disasters during the harsh weather. We also have a strong trend for these conditions that have become more common due to climate change. This is indisputable.” “This is a line of evidence there to say that climate change has a significant effect at least creating conditions for a major fire disaster.”
If there is no change in the climate that a person causes, the world will still have devastating fires, but not many, he said: “We carry dice in a sense by increasing temperatures.”
There are other factors. Caningham said that people are approaching fires exposed to fires, which are called a wilderness. He said that society does not deal with dead foliage that becomes fuel. But these factors are difficult to determine compared to climate change.
“This is an innovative study with regard to the sources of data used, and mostly asserts the proper sense expectations: the fires that cause major deaths and economic damage to those in the densely populated areas and occur at the University of Syracuse, which became more common, but were not part of this change,” said Jacob Bendex, a professor of geography and environment at Siri University, but was not part of this research.
“The study is meaningless, but it is a bad sign for the future,” said Mike Flangigan, a firefighting researcher at Thompson Rivers University in Canada. “With the increased frequency and intensity of extreme fire and dehydration, it increases the possibility of increased catastrophic fires, so we need to do more to be more prepared.”
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