Human driven or anthroprogenic global warming has dramatically increased the intensity and scale of wildfires around the globe READ & WATCH: Global Fire Weather: Increasing Human Footprint with more Heatwaves, Droughts, & High Winds, partial transcript below:
Recent article from space.com:
Wildfires are getting more intense around the world due to human-driven climate change
https://www.space.com/science/climate...
March 2024 through February 2025 wildfires burned 1.4 million square miles or 3.7 million square kilometers around the globe, which is an area larger than the size of India
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT
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So wildfires are getting more intense around the world due to human driven climate change so this is from a few months ago there's a new report that shows how satellites are helping scientists track the planet's future in terms of wildfires. So 2025 one of the most extreme Wildfire years on record so this is the sweeping new analysis is called the state of wildfires 2024-25 report and I'll show you some of the things in the report.
But basically human driven or anthropogenic global warming is dramatically increased the intensity and scale of wildfires around the globe. In some regions it's making severe fire seasons 25 to 35 times more likely than they would have been without the climate change global warming.
So they're using satellite data weather reanalysis land surface models and they've shown how basically Heat and drought dryness vegetation changes and also winds have converged into record-breaking fires from the Amazon to California.
Okay so it's a very extensive report they looked at the impacts of global wildfires they ran thousands of simulations of specific fire Seasons with and without the effects of human driven climate change.
Looked at models of Earth's vegetation to see how growth and death of plants can produce fuel for wildfires; so they're finding that climate change has really influenced major fire events around the world.
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From March 2024 through February 2025 wildfires burned 1.4 million square miles or 3.7 million square kilometers around the globe which is an area larger than the size of India; certain regions saw truly staggering spikes; fire emissions were higher than normal; they mentioned Bolivia here they mentioned Canada; Second year we reached a billion tons of emissions from the wildfires. Brazil's Amazon rainforest this region of the rainforest region considered the world's largest wetland had six times the average CO2 emissions in the area from wildfires.
And yeah yeah of course you know they say wildfires are shaped by a tangled mix of weather vegetation land use and chance so large scale or an event scale attribution is difficult but they looked at all the different possibilities and they they've Advanced the science and wildfires are getting a lot worse so let's have a quick look at this paper.
This is the paper that was published the report on the state of the Wildfire is 2024-2025 112 pages so I'm not going to go into it in great detail very extensive author list from around the world. And it just came out towards the end of 2025 so just you know not that long ago 3 months ago or so.
And let's look at the abstract
so climate change is increasing the frequency how often it occurs and the intensity or amplitude of the extreme wildfires globally; these are high impact events and we need to understand them better; because you know often when they occur there's tremendous media attention for a while and then it goes off the radar something else happens; the state of the wildfires project is systematically tracks Global and Regional fire activity of each annual Fire season; looks at the approximate extreme the causes of the proximate extreme Wildfire events like how much a heatwave drying out high winds and then a trigger like
Like a lightning storm for example.
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The fire related carbon emissions totaled 2.2 pentagram which is 9% above the average it's a six highest on records since 2003 the global burned area was low average so the fire is more intense putting more carbon into the atmosphere extreme fire seasons in South America's rainforest dry forests and wetlands and in Canada's boreal forest pushed up the global carbon emissions total the fire carbon emissions were over four times above average in Bolivia three times above average in Canada and about 50% above average in Brazil and Venezuela this is in the rainforest. [Backwith continues from here reading the article which is available online and so I'm going to end the transcript here; you can continue watching at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16O5DqFnME&t=204s ]
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recent wildfire related post
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Australia Inferno: 122° F [50° C] Victoria ablaze- Firefighters race to stop exploding “Gasoline Trees” Wild Weather channel 20-min Feb 21 report w transcript, at DIYH on a Heating Planet blog These are fire storms 20 times more deadly and 80 times more destructive than a century ago, so bad https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2026/03/australia-122f-infernovictoria-ablaze.html
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[KE: Everything scientists predicted about global warming/ climate change since the 1970s is coming true, only faster]
* TECHNICAL ISSUE: I woke up this morning to find the transcripts I copy and paste from YouTube to do this blog have been modified so they can't be made readable anymore. Google, who runs both YT and Blogspot, has made it almost impossible to do my blog, I thought. Now the only way I can produce is with voice typing, which was easy here as Paul Beckwith speaks clearly, but if there's ambient noise it does not work. Now I can't do transcripts if the speaker has an accent and can't copy and paste then translate either. Stay tuned I will keep trying to figure this out.
PS Problems I had putting up this post, it's almost like Google is beating back this blog but ... paranoia strikes deep
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