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Feds Project Climate Change Will Double Wildfire Risk in Forests

2013-04-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Denver Post: The hotter, drier climate will transform Rocky Mountain forests, unleashing wider wildfires and insect attacks, federal scientists warn in a report for Congress and the White House. The U.S. Forest Service scientists project that, by 2050, the area burned each year by increasingly severe wildfires will at least double, to around 20 million acres nationwide. Some regions, including western Colorado, are expected to face up to a fivefold increase in acres burned if climate change continues on...

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