California Conflagration

Wildfires are both a cause and a result of global warming. Parched, arid conditions caused by higher temperatures and less rainfall are nature´s recipe for a tinderbox.
Add lightning and you´ve got a raging wildfire than can consume hundreds of square miles of woodland in a few days. Result: the increasing incidence and intensity of such fires around the world. Here, the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles in threatened by a wildfire on May 9, 2007.
Fire also helps forge climate change. In the developing world woodlands and rain forest are being cleared at a staggering rate to make way for crops and livestock grazing, almost always witch the use of deiverity ser fires.
Every second of very dat, a slice of forest the size of a football field goes up in smoke, pumping millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere an taking more of the carbon mitigation engines-trees-out of service. Satellite photos have detected more than 70000 fires burning simultaneously in the Amazon River rain forest