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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: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"The weather conditions that make 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. 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: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"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 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: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"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 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: Los Angeles – 8 January 2025
7. Firefighters fighting 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.
But the myriad of causes that go into the still smoldering fires are complex, so the level of global warming’s fingerprints on weeks of burning appears relatively small compared to previous studies of killer heat waves, floods and droughts by the international team at World Weather Attribution.
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%.
Once-in-a-decade super strong Santa Ana winds, a dry autumn that followed two very wet years that caused rapid growth in flammable chapparal and grass, hot weather, dry air and vulnerable houses in fire-prone areas all were factors in the fast-moving fires that destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 29 people, study authors said.
But the climate attribution team was only able to quantify issues that dealt with the fire weather index, which are the meteorological conditions that add up to fire danger.
But she said “the rains are decreasing — that is because of human-induced climate change.”
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