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Western skies thick with smoke, political rhetoric, evidence of climate change
Posted by Colorado Independent: Troy Hooper on June 24th, 2012
Colorado Independent: Fears that Colorado`s snow-starved winter would fuel one of the worst wildfire seasons in history have been realized as the High Park Fire has grown into the state`s second-biggest while home-wrecking fires popped up in Estes Park and Colorado Springs bring the total to at least nine. Waves of evacuations have plagued subdivisions north of Fort Collins since High Park Fire began burning June 9, destroying nearly 200 homes. But while crews gained ground Saturday, containing 45 percent of that 82,000-acre...
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Study: Climate change leaves American West especially vulnerable to wildfires
Posted by Colorado Independent: Troy Hooper on June 12th, 2012
Colorado Independent: Rising temperatures are projected to trigger more wildfires in most of North America and Europe, according to a new study, but climate change may have the opposite effect around the equator. The American West, where massive conflagrations are currently chewing up parts of Colorado and New Mexico, will be especially vulnerable to wildfires over the next three decades, according to scientists from the University of California-Berkeley and Texas Tech University. Their study, published today in the...