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The Yosemite Inferno in the Context of Forest Policy, Ecology and Climate Change
2013-08-29 18:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Assessing the drivers of wildfire trends in the American West these days can be akin to Hercule Poirots task on the Orient Express, on which there was one murder with 12 final suspects all of whom were guilty. For western [wild]fire (its hard to see how the wild part of that word applies any more, given how many human factors are involved), the suspects are a century of accumulated fire debt from fire suppression efforts, development and road construction, natural fluctuations in drought and...
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Context Presentation (Video)
2013-08-05 20:08:40| PortlandOnline
Marilee Hands, AECOM Landscape Architect
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Another View on Gas Drilling in the Context of Climate Change
2013-07-29 23:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Ive received a Your Dot contribution on gas leaks and global warming from Louis A. Derry, an associate professor in the earth and atmospheric sciences department at Cornell University. Its a critique of one element in Gangplank to a Warm Future, an Op-Ed article by Anthony R. Ingraffea, a professor of engineering at Cornell who is a prominent foe of expanded gas drilling using the bundle of methods commonly known as fracking. Youll find it below. But first heres a little context. In a...
The Climate Context Behind the Deadly Arizona Wildfire
2013-07-01 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The deadly Yarnell Hill Fire continued to rage out of control on Monday, a day after the flames fanned by erratic winds and temperatures topping 100°F overwhelmed a team of elite firefighters, killing 19 of the 20-member crew. The fire has burned about 200 homes and has burned through at least 8,400 acres -- more than quadrupling in size since it began on June 28, according to news reports. The deaths of the Prescott, Ariz.-based "Granite Mountain Hotshots' was the worst wildland firefighting...
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Making Sense of the Moore Tornado in a Climate Context
2013-05-22 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The devastating tornado that ripped apart Moore, Okla., on Monday now joins the ranks of America's strongest twisters on record, coming almost exactly two years after a similarly extreme and deadly tornado struck Joplin, Mo. In trying to make sense of the tragedy that unfolded in Moore, here are some of the things we know and don't know about tornadoes, and whether or how climate change may be influencing them now and into the future. Tornadoes are no stranger to the U.S., which sees the majority...
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