With warming, get used to blackouts to prevent wildfires 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy the Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Expect more preventative power blackouts in California as the climate gets hotter and drier and the wildfire season gets nastier and longer, scientists say. The area burned in California wildfires has increased fivefold from 1972 to 2018 and that’s been “driven by drying of fuels promoted by human-induced warming,” according to a June study in the scientific journal Earth’s Future. And it’s not just downed power lines that cause sparks. The key, said Field of Stanford, is the time between the start of the high winds and the start of winter rainstorms.

Source: Manila Bulletin October 11, 2019 23:26 UTC