Climatic Change: Causes, Impacts on

Wild Fires and Human Health

Prof.Dr.A.Kanni Raj
Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences & Humanities
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India

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Feedback between fire and deforestation, with the added components of
climate change and savannization that are to come
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 Impacts on Wild Fires
 Point 1 on Wild Fire  Point 2 on Wild Fire

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 Conclusions
 Influence of volcanoes and changes in solar activity would have resulted in cooling rather
than warming over the past 50 years.

 Global warming witnessed over the past 150 years matches nearly perfectly what is
expected from greenhouse gas emissions and other human activity, ie, the best estimate of
the human contribution to modern warming is around 100%.

 Wild fires estimates show 85% are human made. Over past 100years, wild fires rose by
57% more due to climate change.

 Climate change, together with other natural and human-made health stressors,

influences human health and disease in numerous ways.

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 References
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Fire Regimes in Amazonia: the Relative Roles of Policy and Precipitation
Anthropocene, 14 (2016) 46-57

 Cosimo Magazzino, Mihai Mutascu, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Festus Fatai Adedoyin & Phebe Asantewaa Owusu

Heterogeneous Effects of Temperature and Emissions on Economic Productivity across Climate Regimes
Science of The Total Environment, 775 (2021) 145893

 Zeke Hausfather
Analysis: Why Scientists Think 100% of Global Warming is Due to Humans
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-scientists-think-100-of-global-warming-is-due-to-humans/, 2017

 Raymond Zhong
Climate Scientists Warn of a ‘Global Wild Fire Crisis’
The New York Times, 23rd February 2022

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