Nightmare Wildfires Force State of Emergency in Los Angeles County. Between Hurricane Harvey’s devastating path through southeast Texas and spiraling tensions with North Korea, which may now have advanced hydrogen bombs, it’s become pretty clear Earth and humans are in a race to see who can usher in the apocalypse quicker. Another point in Mother Nature’s corner: The largest wildfire in Los Angeles history, the 5,9. La Tuna Fire, has continued to spread and is only 1. Sunday, Reuters reported. According to CNN, more than 1,0. California firefighters have been deployed to fight the blaze, and Gov.

Jerry Brown has issued a state of emergency declaration in Los Angeles County. Reuters noted 7. 00 homes in Los Angeles, Burbank and Glendale were evacuated.“Our priority is to put firefighters in a position to protect lives and property,” Los Angeles Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas said at a news conference, per Reuters. There’s a lot of fuel out there left to burn.”Terrazas noted temperatures in the area were a blazing 1. Fahrenheit (3. 8 degrees Celsius), which was their “number one concern.” But he added the weather is projected to cool to a slightly less hellish 9.

Fahrenheit (3. 2 to 3. Celsius) through Sunday afternoon.

Climate scientists have long suspected a direct link between the Earth’s rapidly warming climate and increasing bouts of extreme weather, and recent research has provided significantly more hard evidence. But while demonstrating a link between storms like Hurricane Harvey and human- induced global climate change has been difficult, the link between rising temperatures and wildfires is much simpler. Watch Hope For Love Online Gorillavid. According to Scientific American, Western wildfires have risen some 5. Climate change has exacerbated naturally occurring droughts, and therefore fuel conditions,” NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies researcher Robert Field told the magazine.“Higher temperatures exacerbate the drought by increasing evaporation and transpiration,” University of California- Merced professor Le. Roy Westerling added.

Drier conditions mean highly flammable (wildfire) fuels. Drier conditions and high temperatures drive more extreme fire behavior.”[Reuters, CNN].

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