Climate change made severe Britain’s fire six times more likely in 2022

New research suggests that harmful fire during the UK record-breaking 2022 heatwaves was at least six times more likely due to human-causing climate change.

In that summer, it was observed that the temperature in this country first collided with 40 ° C and left firefighters, with the London Fire Brigade “the busiest day since the Second World War.”

Studies, Met Office, UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology and University of Exeter, suggests that climate change temperatures and drought conditions are dramatically increasing the risk of excessive fire weather in the UK.

England emerged as the weakest UK nation in paper Published In the journal Environmental research letter,

Researchers compared the current time climate without human effects through greenhouse gas emissions to understand the effects of climate change on fire weather.

He noticed how weather changes affected the fire – how they were likely to spread and intensify – once they were ignited.

A warning for the future

The study emphasizes that climate change is not only a future concern, but a current reality, in which the risks of fire are growing together with global temperature.

The lead author of the Met Office, Dr. Chantale Burton said, “2022 heat wave was not just a record-breaking-it increases the risk of fire, which exposes due to climate change of rising danger in the UK”

Dr. Burton said, “We found that the 2022 Britain’s severe fire was at least six times more likely due to human influence. With Hotter, dried summer became an ideal, the fire is an emerging threat to Britain”

A land surface modeler, co-writer at the UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH). Douglas Kelly said, “Our findings have underlined a clear reality: climate change is currently increasing the risks of fire, even in the UK wildfires there will be an increasing risk for people, to continue property, weave and ecosystem.”

One of the major messages of the paper is an urgent need to adapt to the risks of fire, limiting warming further.

An urgent and significant decrease in global greenhouse gas emissions will limit the increase in future fire risks, while targeted adaptation measures can help communities and ecosystem to deal with increasing risk.

Some tasks to reduce the risks of fire may include increased land management, away from high -risk areas, reduce accidental fire to detect fire or public campaigns.

Dr. Burton concluded, “The 2022 experiences serve as a Stark reminder of the immediate need to reduce carbon emissions to suit a changing climate and further warming.”

Researchers used advanced climate models and a “Fire Weather Index” – indicator of hot, dry, air -weather conditions associated with fire to assess the risk of extreme fire weather conditions in 2022.

By analyzing historical data and future scenarios, the study provides significant insights about how the risk of fire is increasing due to climate change.