spain injuly, and angel martin arjona in his bulldozer is trying to dig a trench to stop fire spreadingt's the narrowest escape imaginable. he survived, but with severe burns. conditions forfire are made worse by drought. and in august, two—thirds of europe was under some sort of drought warning, with claims this could be the worst such event in 500 years. fires burned in the usa, too. global forest watch says the amount of tree cover being burned around the world has nearly doubled in the last 20 years. i'm joined now by dr matt jones, a climate scientist from the university of east anglia. and, matt, your research focuses on climate change and how that impacts the rate and intensity of wildfires. so how much has our warming world had an impact on wildfires? so, just to put things into perspective, our world is now about 1.2 degrees warmer than it was in 1750 — on average — and that's as a result of the emissions of greenhouse gases since the industrial revolution. so, one degree might not sound like a huge amount at first glance, but actually that's been more than enough to shift the