🚨HEART-WRENCHING SCENES IN HAWAII | MAUI DEATH TOLL OVER 80 | CLIMATE CHANGE TO BLAME?
People leaped into the ocean to evade the flames and billowing smoke in Maui.
Officials state that at least 80 people have died, and unfortunately they expect the number to rise.
Hundreds more remain unaccounted for in one of the worst wildfire catastrophes in modern U.S. history.
Last night, a new blaze prompted residents of another town, Kaanapali in West Maui, to flee.
HOW DID THE FIRES START?
It is believed the bushfire started in Maui on Tuesday, were then stoked on Wednesday by a combination of low humidity and strong mountain winds, brought by Hurricane Dora, a Category 4 storm from the Pacific ocean.
CLIMATE CHANGE TO BLAME?
The severity of the fires in Maui has been blamed by some experts on Climate Change, while others opposed this argument.
The view that Climate Change was to blame was opposed by Clay Trauernicht, a University of Hawaii at Manoa professor and environmental management expert who said "Blaming this on weather and climate is misleading" he added the “fire problem is due to the vast areas of unmanaged, nonnative grasslands from decades of declining agriculture."
Katharine Hayhoe, the chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, said that global heating is causing vegetation to dry out, priming it as fuel for a fire outbreak. “Climate change doesn’t usually start the fires; but it intensifies them, increasing the area they burn and making them much more dangerous,”
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the individuals caught in the midst of these tragic wildfires 🙏
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