christina dial is the vice president of science at climb its central. she joins us now live from san francisco and california. christina, welcome to the program. very good to speak to you. so we all seeing more and more of these devastating fires hit the west of the united states and they're increasing no, any just in frequency, but also in intensity. what is fueling the size? i say almost any metrics fires across the western united states in western canada or worsening. so they are growing larger. they are burning more intensely. they're burning over a longer season during the year. and part of what is fueling. this is very clearly climate change. it was too early to say for these specific fires exactly what role climate change played. so what we do know is that over the past 50 years or so, the number of to use with extreme buyer weathers, these hot dry wendy conditions has increased across california. and we know that that long term trend, this is related to global warming and a drying trend across the region as well. so there are many factors that ha

we spoke to christina dial, who's the vice president for science at the climate central. she says climate change is making fires worse in western points of the us and canada. they are growing larger, they are burning more intensely. they're burning over a longer season during the year. and part of what is fueling this is very clearly climate change. it's too early to say for these specific fires exactly what role climate change played. so what we do know is that over the past, 50 years or so, the number of to use with extreme fire weather. so these hot, dry, windy conditions has increased across california and we knew that that long term trend this is related to global warming and a drawing trend across the region as well. so there are many factors that have to come together for fires like this to happen. hot temperatures, dry conditions, strong winds. we also have to have them burning in a place where people move in and care about for them to treat this public safety danger. but it's very clear that climate change is playing some role. it's really the wins that are makin