Assertion: climate change | /r/CapableOf | increase severity of fires
Facets:
value: through drought
type: TEMPORAL
value: through increased temperatures
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Although wildfires occur naturally and play a long-term role in the health of these ecosystems, climate change threatens to increase the frequency, extent, and severity of fires through increased temperatures and drought (see the U.S. and Global Temperature and Drought indicators).
text: Climate change is expected to increase the number and severity of wildfires.