<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/nsfc-sdr091019.php" class="m_8759780976236923670has-thumb" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/nsfc-sdr091019.php&source=gmail&ust=1568233893564000&usg=AFQjCNHCZiecJDKKEdSOhQwvkGfonrif8g" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; display: block; padding: 0px; min-height: 125px;"><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px; margin-right: 110px;" class=""><div class="m_8759780976236923670reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;"><font color="#000000" class="">News Release 10-Sep-2019</font></div><h2 class="m_8759780976236923670post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font color="#000000" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Satellite data record shows climate change's impact on fires</font></h2><span class="m_8759780976236923670author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase;"><font color="#000000" class="">NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER</font></span></header><div class="m_8759780976236923670entry m_8759780976236923670hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 110px;"><p class="m_8759780976236923670intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><font color="#000000" class="">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, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">as the world has increasingly warmed, so has its potential to burn.</span></font></p></div><dl class="m_8759780976236923670dl-horizontal m_8759780976236923670meta m_8759780976236923670hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-right: 110px;"><dt class="m_8759780976236923670green" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left: 2px solid rgb(102, 188, 51); border-top-color: rgb(102, 188, 51); border-right-color: rgb(102, 188, 51); border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 188, 51); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;"><font color="#000000" class="">FUNDER</font></dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">NASA</font></dd></dl></a><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Full release <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/nsfc-sdr091019.php" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/nsfc-sdr091019.php&source=gmail&ust=1568233893564000&usg=AFQjCNHCZiecJDKKEdSOhQwvkGfonrif8g" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.<wbr class="">eurekalert.org/pub_releases/<wbr class="">2019-09/nsfc-sdr091019.php</a></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Excerpts:</b> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">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.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><p style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">"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.</span></p><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">Fires of all types reshape the landscape and the atmosphere in ways that can resonate for decades.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"As climate warms, we have an </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">increasing frequency of extreme events."</span></p></div><div class="">
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[17] Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, …. ; <br class="">that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">...“…the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">"The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.”</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">Revelations 11:18 “…thy wrath is come…and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br class=""> <br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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