{"id":17037,"date":"2025-03-30T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17037"},"modified":"2025-03-30T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:34:08","slug":"climate-change-made-la-fires-far-more-likely-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17037","title":{"rendered":"Climate change made LA fires far more likely, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Human-caused climate change made the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/25\/trump-los-angeles-fires-help-rebuild\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Los Angeles-area fires<\/a>&nbsp;more likely and more destructive, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldweatherattribution.org\/climate-change-increased-the-likelihood-of-wildfire-disaster-in-highly-exposed-los-angeles-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The study \u2014 from an international group of 32 climate researchers \u2014 shows how climate change fits into the myriad factors that made the multiple blazes one of California&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/10\/la-fires-destructive-california-record-structures-burned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most destructive<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/11\/los-angeles-fire-insurance-losses-billions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expensive wildfire disasters<\/a>&nbsp;on record.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The scientists found that low rainfall from October through December is now more than twice as likely compared to the climate that existed before humans began burning fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas for energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;the LA fire season is becoming longer, with &#8220;highly flammable drought conditions&#8221; lasting about 23 more days now than during the preindustrial era.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/28\/la-fires-cause-climate-change-more-likely\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/28\/la-fires-cause-climate-change-more-likely<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Human-caused climate change made the Los Angeles-area fires more likely and more destructive, according to a study&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The study \u2014 from an international group of 32 climate researchers \u2014 shows how climate change fits into the myriad factors that made the multiple blazes one of California&#8217;s most destructive and expensive wildfire disasters on record.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scientists found that low rainfall from October through December is now more than twice as likely compared to the climate that existed before humans began burning fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas for energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the LA fire season is becoming longer, with &#8220;highly flammable drought conditions&#8221; lasting about 23 more days now than during the preindustrial era.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/28\/la-fires-cause-climate-change-more-likely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[304,105,1749,1827,186,104,1274],"class_list":["post-17037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-california","tag-climate-change","tag-disaster","tag-fire","tag-fires","tag-global-warming","tag-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17038,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037\/revisions\/17038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}