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Wildfires far more costly and destructive than in the 1980s
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Times of San Diego
“It shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that we do have a major wildfire crisis on our hands,” Cunningham said.
In the 1980s, the globe averaged two of these catastrophic fires a year and a few times hit four a year.
“We’ve firstly got that connection that all the disasters by and large occurred during extreme weather.
We’ve also got a strong trend of those conditions becoming more common as a result of climate change.
But those factors are harder to quantify compared to climate change, he said.