Israeli fire typical of climate change

Joshua S. Hill in Planetsave: Recent fires to sweep through the Carmel Mountains near Haifa in Israel are a typical example of the effects of climate change and a bitter taste of the future according to Dr. Guy Pe’er.

Pe’er and other members of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of the Environmental Protection have prepared Israel’s first report to the United Nations on climate change. Entitled “Israel’s National Report on Climate Change”, the report notes that the frequency, intensity, and the extent of fires will increase due to the extension of droughts, the increase in water evaporation, and an increase in the number of intense heat waves….

Mount Carmel forest fire in Israel, 2010, shot by Hanay, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license