"The number and severity of California wildfires coincides with climate change: the long-term shift in global weather patterns linked to humans' use of fossil fuels that produce heat-trapping greenhouse gasses."
"Understanding climate change's contribution to individual wildfires is always difficult (if not) impossible to sort of understand... Modern civilization has a lot of sparks that cause fires," said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA.
"We can and must talk about the mysteries and realities of climate change, but there are other realities that demand our attention, too," said William Deverell, highlighting the role of human technology in fire causation.
"We live in hotter and drier circumstances, yes, but we also generate a lot of sparks by way of our technologies and sometimes haphazard uses of them," Deverell added, emphasizing the need for awareness.
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