Reason : The trend shows an overall increase in the duration and frequency of wildfires.
Quoting Reuters below :
"Relentless wildfires forcing the largest evacuations in California's modern history raged into a fourth day on Wednesday as 10,000 exhausted firefighters hoped for a break in the hot winds whipping the flames."
Our take : This is the largest evacuation till now. It is only to be expected to grow worse as Global Warming progresses.
"With half a million people driven from their homes, 1,000 houses already lost and some 470 square miles (1,220 sq km) scorched across the southern half of the state, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's government has put economic losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars."
Our take :
Such wildfires, floods, glacier melting are going to keep on increasing.......we haven't yet started looking at the financial losses due to global warming...maybe the pundits should do some calculation. Because financial losses would be starting even before human losses. It should start incresing to trillions globally.
"If the weather cooperates maybe we can turn the tide," U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said as he toured San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, where 10,000 people have taken refuge. "We're still facing some very serious fires."
Our take : the authorities should start planning on how to handle such large evacuees. It's going to lead to an increase in very poor public sanitation, crimes, outbreak of diseases.
Remember what happened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ?
