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Burning Question: How Will Climate Change Impact Western Wildfires?
2013-07-03 22:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Climate change will dramatically alter wildfire patterns in the western United States before the century ends, studies show. Experts are reluctant to paint a broad picture of future fire risk because fires vary so drastically among regions -- a forest fire in high-elevation Colorado, for example, is vastly different than coastal, chaparral-fed flames in California. But many fire scientists agree the doomsday scenario of massive fires that wreak death and destruction can be quashed through smarter...
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Expect an Angry Summer of More Wildfires, Drought and Extreme Heat
2013-07-03 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The recent rash of deadly wildfires and record breaking high temperatures across the western U.S. indicates the country may be in the grips of an "angry summer" made worse by climate change. July 2013 began with much of the western portion of the U.S. experiencing one of the most extreme heat waves on record in the region. During the days between June 24 and 29, there were 46 monthly high-temperature records set or tied in the U.S., along with 21 records for the highest overnight minimum temperature....
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Reporters Aren't Drawing The Connection Between Climate Change And Wildfires
2013-07-03 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Popular Science: Climate change is a major contributing factor to wildfires, like the blaze in Arizona that killed 19 firefighters this week. But is that connection being made in news reports? A new Media Matters report examined how frequently recent print and TV reports from major outlets--CNN, NBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, and others--mentioned climate change when they reported on wildfires. The answer: not very frequently. Between April and July, just 4 percent of TV reports and 9 percent of print...
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Incident Meteorologists Are on Front Lines of Wildfires
2013-07-03 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: On Monday night, Jim Wallmann drove north from broiling Phoenix toward a bustling command post for the Yarnell Hill fire near Prescott, Ariz. The blaze had killed 19 of the 20-member crew of elite "Hotshots" a day earlier in the worst loss of firefighters in a single wildfire in 80 years. With erratic weather conditions viewed as the primary suspect behind the tragedy, Wallman had been called to the blaze specifically to prevent a repeat incident by keeping firefighters informed of changing weather...
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United States: How suburban sprawl makes wildfires more deadly
2013-07-03 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Last years wildfire season was one of the worst on record, and whether or not this year`s tops it (a likely outcome), its already off to a horrifically tragic start: 19 elite firefighters perished in a blaze outside Prescott, Ariz., on Sunday - the most to die fighting a single wildfire in 80 years. Even before the deadly Yarnell Hill blaze began, the usual suspects were asking: What does climate change have to do with wildfires? James West of Climate Desk addressed this maddening question a couple...
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