Skeptical Science New Research for Week #39 2026
The graphics and tables reveal the remarkable extent of the forested area burned. The average area burned per year has increased by roughly a factor of three since the year 2000.
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The graphics and tables reveal the remarkable extent of the forested area burned.
Aridity has increased, mainly in response to the warming trend, which is comparable in magnitude to that in climate model simulations of the response to rising greenhouse gas concentrations.
The average area burned per year has increased by roughly a factor of three since the year 2000.
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The graphics and tables reveal the remarkable extent of the forested area burned. The average area burned per year has increased by roughly a factor of three since the year 2000. The area burned by severe fires with areas > 100 km2 has been increasing more rapidly than the area burned by smaller fires.
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- An Overview, Wallace et al., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society This overview of the voluminous wildfire literature addresses the following questions: "How seriously is the current spate of...
- Aridity has increased, mainly in response to the warming trend, which is comparable in magnitude to that in climate model simulations of the response to rising greenhouse gas concentrations.
- The evidence presented herein supports the widely held belief that the recent...
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Open access notables The Increasing Incidence of Boreal and Western U.S. Is the current rate of burning of these forests unprecedented? Wildfire smoke has also increased appreciably over much of North America.
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