Study: climate change made Spain's wildfire weather 20x more likely

If a climate scientist like @clairbarnes.bsky.social from @wwattribution.bsky.social says it's extremely scary how climate change is intensifying hot, dry, flammable conditions conducive to wildfires, you should probably be worried.

#GlobalHeating greatly increases #wildfire risk. That‘s been established scientifically for a long time (see IPCC reports) but has now been shown again for the current fires 🔥 in France and Spain in a new World Weather Attribution study. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

“Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”

A succession of heatwaves and very dry conditions - both driven by human-induced climate change, fueld the severe wildfires in Spain and France - new @wwattribution.bsky.social study www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Human-induced climate change made the extreme fire weather that fuelled the recent destructive wildfires at least twice as likely in France and at least 20 times more likely in Spain, according to our new study.

‘Extremely scary findings’ show #climatecrisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather - Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely @wwattribution.bsky.social Story by me www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely" "Extremely scary" yes, but nonetheless this is not the end of the super-charging of our weather, it is just the beginning www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Human-caused climate change made the extreme weather fuelling wildfires in southwestern France twice as likely, and made the conditions driving blazes in central Spain 20 times more likely, scientists have said

"Tinderbox conditions" created by climate change set the stage for the rapid spread of wildfires across France and Spain this month. 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

The extreme heat and drought stoking huge wildfires in Spain and France were made far more likely by the climate crisis, a scientific analysis has found. Global heating made hot, dry and windy weather at least 20× more likely in Spain and twice as likely in France, experts from the World Weather

Of all the many impacts of climate change, it is the collapse of food security that haunts me the most. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🧪 V good to see sustained media attention but I feel like reporting must evolve beyond asking a range of scientists to comment on how likely it is that 'it's our fault'. Similarly UK sci community needs a single spokesperson who will join dots to political policy www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

There's a chart making the rounds of the right-wing disinformation-sphere, which supposedly shows a record low year for wildfires in Europe. In fact, it's highly misleading, mostly because @ourworldindata.org includes Russia (and thus all of Siberia) in their datasets about "Europe." 1/2

New from me & colleagues in France, Spain and on the data team: Europe is waking up to a new era of unstoppable megafires, amplified by climate change. Gift link:

Wildfires in France and Spain have revealed the difficulties of fire management but also an impressive solidarity, among local farmers as well as European nations which sent firefighting aircraft and personnel to help 🇵🇹 🇨🇿 🇮🇹 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇭🇷 🇩🇪 🇸🇰 🇹🇷 economist.com/interactive/...