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Oil and water, apples and oranges, fire and ice.

None of these things really seem like they have much to do with one another.

Or do they?

We found that more fire favorable weather associated with declines in the Arctic sea ice during

summer can increase autumn wildfires over the western United States.

Heilong Wong is an Earth scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State.

So we analyze a few decades of observations on wildfire incidents, sea ice cover, and weather conditions to identify a relationship between Arctic sea ice

declining and the wirefire risks. We call it a teleconnection. Wang says this idea of a fire and

ice teleconnection, it's not new. It's a lot like the so-called butterfly effect,

a term coined by meteorologist Edward Lorenz in the 1960s to explain chaos theory. The idea can

be summarized like this. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one location, that could displace

enough air to cause a tornado

or some other large-scale atmospheric storm elsewhere.

Yeah, we certainly didn't invent this concept, but it has been in the atmospheric sciences

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