How technology can protect from forest fires - Evie Cantú

  When Dr. Atkinson came to speak earlier in November he said something that definitely stuck with me. When he was speaking about the woman who uses technology to figure out how many days will be over a hundred degrees in Texas through I think it was now to 2030 I found that really interesting because I felt like it could be a really important data set when you take into account how the climate is changing. The summers are not only getting a lot hotter over the past few years, but with that heat also causes an increase in how dry the surrounding area is for some places. In Texas especially, most places tend to be on the drier side. With the increase in dryness and heat also in turn makes the conditions for wildfires to be more favorable, and for areas that are already dry and vulnerable this places them at an even higher risk.

 I found an article detailing how forest fires now “burn more than twice as much tree cover” each year when compared to when the data first started to be taken- which was 2001 (wri).  Last year according to the data was the worst year by far when it came to forest fires with “at least 13.5 million hectares” of forest being burned in the US, which matches up to the same size as Greece (wri). With the temperatures continuing to increase like this, the wildfires that these vulnerable populations experience will only become more and more devastating- in a global view as well with the fires becoming more prevalent and stronger that amount of carbon being released by them into the atmosphere also increases. I feel like by using the data not only will it help populations become prepared for the fires, but it also increases the awareness for officials who play a role in dealing with environmental and climate legislation 

If anyone is interested in reading the article about the fires here it is!

https://www.wri.org/insights/global-trends-forest-fires

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