[MCN] Kids face future of hotter nights, and bigger fires

[Lance Olsen]

News Release 10-Sep-2019
Satellite data record shows climate change's impact on fires
NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
While every fire needs a spark to ignite and fuel to burn, it's the hot and dry conditions in the atmosphere that determine the likelihood of a fire starting, its intensity and the speed at which it spreads. Over the past several decades, as the world has increasingly warmed, so has its potential to burn.

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 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/nsfc-sdr091019.php>Full release https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/nsfc-sdr091019.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/nsfc-sdr091019.php>

Excerpts: A warming world also has another consequence that may be contributing to fire conditions persisting over multiple days where they otherwise might not have in the past: higher nighttime temperatures.

"Warmer nighttime temperature allow fires to burn through the night and burn more intensely, and that allows fires to spread over multiple days where previously, cooler nighttime temperatures might have weakened or extinguished the fire after only one day," Morton said.

Fires of all types reshape the landscape and the atmosphere in ways that can resonate for decades.

"As climate warms, we have an increasing frequency of extreme events."

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Ecclesiastes 3:19 …a man hath no preeminence above a beast; for all is vanity.

Genesis. 7. [17] Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh,  ….  ; 
that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

...“…the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”

"The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.”

Revelations 11:18  “…thy wrath is come…and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”


 


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