Climate Change Made Turkey, Greece Wildfires 10 Times More Likely

The wildfires that raged across Greece, Turkey and Cyprus this summer were 22% more intense and 10 times more likely than they would have been in a world without climate change, according to scientists.

The extremely hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the chaotic spread of fires across the eastern Mediterranean would only occur once every century without man-made climate change, according to researchers from World Weather Attribution, a group of scientists that conduct fast studies using peer reviewed methods to determine the influence of climate change on extreme events. The 1.3C degree of warming the world has experienced since pre-industrial times means such events can now happen once very 20 years.