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Sierra Nevada climate changes feed monster, forest-devouring fires http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1228061933
... Wildfire has marched across the West for centuries. But no longer are major conflagrations fueled simply by heavy brush and timber. Now climate change is stoking the flames higher and hotter, too.
That view, common among firefighters, is reflected in new studies that tie changing patterns of heat and moisture in the western United States to an unprecedented rash of costly and destructive wildfires.
Among other things, researchers have found the frequency of wildfire increased fourfold – and the terrain burned expanded sixfold – as summers grew longer and hotter over the past two decades.
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Raoul says: "Name one for me!"
occam says: "Wildfire "Vesta" is my recommendation for the first..."
paul says: "Don't forget that forest firefighting screws with the "natural" fire ecology. We don't have to wait for global warming to screw things up."
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Pretty soon, we're gonna have to start giving these monster fires people-names, just like hurricanes.
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