Models show intensifying wildfires in a warming world due to changes in vegetation and humidity; only a minor role for lightning

ScienceDaily
Feb 12, 2025, 3:11 pm826 ptsInterestingTop
Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse gas emissions will likely increase the global lightning frequency by about 1.6% per degree Celsius global…

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