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Forest Fire Foundation
The world's average temperature is expected to rise 5.8°c by 2100.
The relation between global temperature and fires
Temprature is a key variable for forest fires in 3 ways
The amount of moisture the atmosphere can hold is highly sensitive to temperature. This drives fuel moisture; if temperature increases then significant increases in precipitation are needed to compensate. With the amount of moisture decreasing, forest are prone to larger and more untolerable fires.
Temperature has a strong positive correlation with lightning…the warmer it is, the more lightning we will have. With increased lightning comes a greater risk of nature caused forest fires.
The warmer it is the longer the fire season; particularly important at high northern latitudes. In places such as Canada, this means more fires and more hectares
of trees burned.
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