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The Los Angeles fires were made significantly worse by climate change, a rapid scientific analysis by the World Weather Attribution has found.The 32 scientists from the United States and Europe found human-caused climate change exacerabated the ferocious Los Angeles wildfires by reducing rainfall, drying out vegetation, and increasing the overlap between flammable drought conditions and strong Santa Ana winds.
The hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the fires were about 35 per cent more likely due to warming caused primarily by the burning of oil, gas and coal. Such conditions will become a further 35 per cent more likely if warming reaches 2.6 degrees, which is forecast by 2100 unless global emissions are cut rapidly.Low rainfall from October to December is now about 2.
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