Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires: January 2020

Matthew W. Jones; Adam J. P. Smith; Richard Betts; Josep G. Canadell; I. Colin Prentice; Corinne Le Quéré

Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires: January 2020

Matthew W. Jones, Adam J. P. Smith, Richard Betts, Josep G. Canadell, I. Colin Prentice, Corinne Le Quéré

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We undertook a ScienceBrief Review on the link between climate change and wildfire risk. 57 scientific articles were gathered and evaluated using ScienceBrief. This document synthesises the key points that emerged from the findings. Our review focuses on papers published since the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), with its cut-off date of March 2013. The papers can be viewed on sciencebrief.org/topics/climate-change-science/wildfires. All papers show linkages between climate change and increased frequency or severity of fire weather, though some note anomalies in isolated regions. None of the papers support a widespread decrease in fire risk.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	ScienceBrief
Publisher	Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Publication status	Published - 14 Jan 2020

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Climate-Carbon Interactions in the Current Century
Le Quéré, C., Manning, A., De-Gol, A., Pickers, P. & Wright, R.
EU Horizon 2020
1/06/19 → 30/11/23
Project: Research
Observation-based system for monitoring and verification of greenhouse gases
Le Quéré, C., Peylin, P., Aalto, T., Astrup, R., Bombelli, A., Brunner, D., Buchwitz, M., Chang, J., Dolman, H., Engelen, R., Gerbig, C., Gon, H., Gunther, D., Hammer, S., Hase, F., House, J., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Kern, B., Kutsch, W., Makarova, M., Nabuurs, G., O'Brien, P., Obersteiner, M., Olsen, A., Osborn, T., Palmer, P., Peters, G., Peters, W., Regnier, P., Rigler, E., Ruyssenaars, P., Scholze, M., Serengil, Y., Smith, P., Tarasova, O., Thompson, R., Tworke, K., Vitullo, M., Zakharov, V., Andrews, O., Jones, M., Pickers, P. & Harris, I.
EU Horizon 2020
1/02/18 → 31/07/22
Project: Research
Knowledge Assessment Platform for the valuation of Energy and Nature together (KAPtEN)
Lovett, A., Le Quéré, C., Noppen, J., Watson, S. R. & Moriarty, R.
Natural Environment Research Council
1/02/16 → 31/07/19
Project: Research

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Observation-based system for monitoring and verification of greenhouse gases

Knowledge Assessment Platform for the valuation of Energy and Nature together (KAPtEN)

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