Climate change made Spain’s wildfires 20 times more likely, study finds

Decades of progress in fire suppression across Southern Europe are being overwhelmed by climate-driven fire weather, scientists say.

Ongoing wildfires in Spain and France have forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate and scorched huge swathes of land.

Human-Caused Climate Change Made Spanish, French Fires Much More Likely, Scientists Calculate  HuffPost

Human-caused climate change made Spanish fires 20 times more likely, scientists calculate.

BRUSSELS, July 31 - Human-caused climate change made the extreme weather fuelling wildfires in southwestern France twice as likely, and made the conditions driving blazes in central Spain 20 times more likely, scientists said on Friday.

Human-caused global warming made the hot, dry and windy conditions that fuelled the fires at least twice as likely in south-western France and at least 20 times as likely in central Spain

Two new studies reveal climate change's fingerprints over extreme fire weather-triggering infernos in Spain and France

Human-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculate  Toronto Star

Global warming also doubled the likelihood of this year's tinderbox conditions in France, says snap scientific analysis.

Human-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculate  AP News

When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all? For many years, scientists could answer that question only in general terms. They knew that human-caused climate change was increasing the frequency or