claim: says texas wildfires are linked to climate change.
author: barack obama
evidence_1: sep 7, 2011 ... according to climate scientist richard seager of columbia university's lamont  doherty earth observatory, it's very hard to say how much human-induced  climate change has contributed to this year's scorching temperatures, drought,  and related wildfires in texas. but seager says that, while la niña, as ...
evidence_2: sep 10, 2017 ... wildfires. ready to blow: global warming means less soil moisture on  average, which means that stuff burns more easily. (particularly if you're in a  drought-stricken area with a lot of dead, dry trees, for example.) “fires tend to be  associated with hotter drier weather, everything else being equal,” said ...
evidence_3: oct 14, 2017 ... no single fire can be specifically linked to climate change, and certainly other  factors, such as increased development or logging and grazing ... what promises  to be an arduous rebuilding, texas, florida, puerto rico and other places hit by  this year's unprecedented back-to-back-to-back hurricanes are still ...
evidence_4: the effects of global warming are turning many of our forests into kindling during  wildfire season. ... natural, cyclical weather occurrences, such as el niño events,  also affect the likelihood of wildfires by affecting levels of precipitation and  moisture and lead to year-by-year variability in the potential for drought and  wildfires ...
evidence_5: sep 12, 2017 ... there are several ingredients required for wildfires — some connected to climate  change and some that have nothing to do with it. but dry conditions and extreme  heat create good tinder, making wildfires worse in certain areas, says benjamin  bond-lamberty, an ecosystem ecologist with the joint global ...