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Climate Central: Pinecone-littered forests draped over tens of millions of acres of mountaintops through the American Southwest are in danger of being scorched out of existence by global warming.
It's not just rising heat that threatens to put a meteorological flamethrower to lush montane swaths of Arizona and New Mexico better known for low-altitude cacti and desert plains. A fire-wielding threat also comes from a rise in vapor pressure deficit, or VPD -- a parching force linked to climate change that rises as......
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Moisture shortfall, heat threaten southwestern forests
Posted by Climate Central: John Upton on January 14th, 2015
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