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ARCHIVE: Los Angeles – 8 January 2025
1. Various of homes burning and firefighters on the scene fighting fire
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London – 28 January 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Friederike Otto, lead of World Weather Attribution and Imperial College climate scientist:
"The weather conditions that make wildfires possible are quite complex weather conditions. So it’s a combination of high temperatures, of high winds and of dry conditions. And so, therefore, we also did look at several lines of evidence in this study to find out what the role of climate change is. First, we looked at the wildfire index, which combines all these variables, and we find that due to climate change, these fires have become 35% more likely to occur."
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ARCHIVE: Los Angeles – 8 January 2025
3. Various more of homes and cars burning and firefighters on the scene fighting fire
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London – 28 January 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Friederike Otto, lead of World Weather Attribution and Imperial College climate scientist:
"The rains in October to December have become less intense because of climate change. And that also means that the end of the dry season has become longer. So it has moved in time by up to 23 days. And that means that the dry season and the Santa Ana winds, which always happen at this time of year, now are more likely to overlap. And that’s the perfect conditions for terrible wildfires like these."
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ARCHIVE: Los Angeles – 8 January 2025
5. Various more of homes and cars burning and firefighters on the scene fighting fire
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London – 28 January 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Friederike Otto, lead of World Weather Attribution and Imperial College climate scientist:
"Where we have a big influence from climate change is that this dry season and that we have this drought beforehand so that the fuel was there for the fire. That is where climate change plays a big role. And so we can’t really say, oh this is the biggest impact. But climate change makes the high risk area even more dangerous. And there is definitely a limit to what you can can adapt to."
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ARCHIVE: Los Angeles – 8 January 2025
7. Various more of homes and cars burning and firefighters on the scene fighting fire
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London – 28 January 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Friederike Otto, lead of World Weather Attribution and Imperial College climate scientist:
"It’s not something where you can say that this was because California did something very wrong. They did a lot of things right. They did some things that they could do better. But what makes these (fi ever more dangerous, these fires, and what is something that the government of California alone can definitely not do anything about, is human-induced climate change. And ‘drill, baby, drill’ will make this much, much worse."
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ARCHIVE: Altadena, California – 7 January 2025
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9. Emergency workers and senior center evacuees gathered near ambulances
10. People near ambulances, including elderly woman in wheelchair, waiting to be lifted into ambulance
11. Structure on fire
STORYLINE:
Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found.
Tuesday’s report, too rapid for peer-review yet, found global warming boosted the likelihood of high fire weather conditions in this month’s fires by 35% and its intensity by 6%.
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