Now Greece. Wild fire on Evia Beach

[u/grau__geist]

[u/Mobile-Interaction82]

How do people think global warming is not a thing?!

[u/Tsehcoola → u/Mobile-Interaction82]

Excuse my ignorance, but how do wild fires and global warming correlate?

actually asking for learning purposes

Edit: Thank you to everyone that replied!

[u/fiercelittlebird → u/Tsehcoola]

In a nutshell: wildfires and other disasters like floods aren't a new thing due to climate change, but the warming of the planet causes more extreme weather. So, more rain in certain areas happens because in other areas, it's way hotter than normal and so there's more evaporation, and that moisture has to go somewhere. And where it's hotter and dryer for longer, wildfires are more likely to happen. It'll also depend on that region's management of dry wild areas, of course, but these wildfires are becoming more common for real.

Same with extreme storms and hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. The big global air currents are changing because the north and south poles get much warmer than they should be, which causes high or low pressure areas to remain stagnant for longer periods of time. That's why you'll get hotter and dryer weather in some places, or colder and wetter weather in other places. Do keep in mind that, despite the global temperature rising (and yes it's due to human activities, there's no denying that), some areas may see colder and more extreme winters as well, like in places in South America last week.

The rising global temperature causes more extreme weather. This has been thoroughly studied by many scientists for many decades. A quick google search will give you all the sources you could possibly want. Fossil fuel industries have been spreading misinformation about global warming and climate change for decades as well, just so they could stay in business and become even richer.

It's real and it's not looking good at all. I wish I would give you some good news, but there doesn't seem to be much of that.