Reacción a "An attribution study links climate change to the intensity of extreme fires in Spain and Portugal in August 2025"

This is a very quick exercise that aims to illustrate the changes in climatic conditions that favour the occurrence and intensity of fires. These exercises are useful for reinforcing the fact that we are facing a climate emergency and the messages from the recent IPCC assessment with evidence that has already materialised.

It merely links fires to these changes in conditions, but the situation is more complex, because there are other areas with greater changes and anomalies where these fires have not occurred. Its message must therefore be placed in a broader context of what other factors (lack of forest management, better warning and coordination systems, for example) are critical for these disasters to occur, in combination with climatic conditions. Because if all of these are not considered together, a sense of helplessness can be generated that leads to inaction or the design of ineffective preventive measures.