The summer season of forest fires is becoming more intense and destructive as the weather recedes.
July was the hottest month on the planet in 142 years of record keeping, according to U.S. meteorologists. Several U.S. states, including California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, also saw their hottest moments. July.
In August, forest fires continued to occur in the western United States and Canada, southern Europe, northern Africa, Russia, Israel, and elsewhere.
In Greece, which suffers its most severe heat wave in decades, a large fire occurs this week he threatened villages outside Athens. Thousands were evacuated of homes in a region of the Côte d’Azur threatened by wildfires. Recent forest fires have killed at least 75 people in Algeria and 16 in Turkey, local officials said.
Drought conditions and high temperatures in northern California have led to the Dixie fire, which has been on for a month and has burned more than 1,000 square miles. Recently, about 1,600 people in Lake County were ordered to flee as they approached the flames and children were rushed. of an elementary school as a nearby field was burned.
A report last week of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called Earth’s rapidly warming temperatures a “code red” for humanity. ”The report says climate change is clearly caused by humans and is an“ established fact, ”and co-author and climate scientist Linda Mearns told the AP that the altered global climate leaves “nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.”