(English) GIST Researchers Find «Best Case» Goals for Climate Warming Could Still Result in Massive Wildfire Risk

GWANGJU, South Korea, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The landmark 2015 Paris Agreement resulted in multiple studies examining the impact of global temperature increases, but these rarely investigate the effect of warming on «fire weather» conditions. Now, in a new study, scientists have found that by projecting two different types of fire weather conditions, an additional half-degree of warming could drastically increase the likelihood and significance of blazes worldwide.

Under the 2015 Paris…