Parts of California are seeing fire season start more than 10 weeks earlier now than in the 1990s. Two authors of a new study explain how climate warming has been driving this trend and why it's likely to continue.
  • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    7 days ago

    The same is happening in Victoria, Australia. The scary part is they’re starting to overlap at times, meaning fire-fighting resources can’t be as effectively shared between the two like they have been in the past.

  • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgMEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I mean, no shit. I lived in Southern Oregon – as in extremely so, such that we may as well have been in NorCal – 22 years ago (god, I feel old), and things were already starting to change. By my last summer in the Rogue Valley, we all had masks, and this was years before Covid.