{"id":4485,"date":"2016-08-07T15:04:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2016-08-07T15:04:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:04:23","slug":"water-water-water-california-ctd-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/07\/water-water-water-california-ctd-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, Water, Water: California, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now we see the next result in California of climate change: wildfires. NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (30 July 2016) reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this time of year, it\u2019s the most extreme fire behaviour I\u2019ve seen in my 32-year career,\u201d county fire chief Daryl Osby said. More than 10,000 homes had been evacuated as New Scientist<\/i> went to press. A sanctuary for rescued exotic creatures also had to evacuate most of its animals, including Bengal tigers and a mountain lion.<\/p>\n

California is going through its worst drought on record, and melting snowpack<\/a> in the Sierra Nevada may mean even less water will be available in coming years. At least one study has linked the drought to climate change<\/a>, and we know that global warming is expected to fuel more wildfires in the future<\/a>. The heat from the wildfires could also be releasing carbon stored in permafrost<\/a>, fuelling further warming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We examined the lack of ice pack<\/a> in the Sierras in this post a while back. An analysis of California wildfires 1984-2010 is here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0In this update, we use satellite-derived estimates of fire severity from the three most widely\u00a0distributed SNFPA forest types to examine the trend in percent high severity and high severity\u00a0fire area for all wildfires \u226580 ha that occurred during the 1984 to 2010 period.\u00a0Time-series regression modeling indicates that the percentage of total high severity per\u00a0year for a combination of yellow pine (ponderosa pine [Pinus ponderosa Lawson & C.\u00a0Lawson] or Jeffrey pine [P. jeffreyi Balf.]) and mixed-conifer forests increased significantly\u00a0over the 27-year period. The annual area of high-severity fire also increased significantly\u00a0in yellow pine-mixed-conifer forests. The percentage of high severity in fires\u00a0\u2265400 ha burning in yellow pine-mixed-conifer forests was significantly higher than in fires\u00a0<400 ha. Additionally, the number of fires \u2265400 ha significantly increased over the 1950\u00a0to 2010 period. There were no significant trends in red fir (Abies magnifica A. Murray\u00a0bis) forests. These results confirm and expand our earlier published results for a \u00a0shorter\u00a021-year period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NASA<\/strong><\/em> provides a satellite view<\/a> of some of the fires:<\/p>\n

\"Sand<\/p>\n

Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n

You can see the smoke of the first on the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now we see the next result in California of climate change: wildfires. NewScientist (30 July 2016) reports: \u201cFor this time of year, it\u2019s the most extreme fire behaviour I\u2019ve seen in my 32-year career,\u201d county fire chief Daryl Osby said. More than 10,000 homes had been evacuated as New Scientist \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}