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Yes, wildfires are connected to climate change. Here's how.
2013-07-02 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Treehugger: The American West is currently suffering from a record-setting heat wave and deadly wildfires. Tragically, 19 fire fighters died Sunday in Prescott, Arizona fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire, one of the many fires that are currently burning through the west. As we've come to see following events such as this, people are asking if or how this is related to global warming. Below are some good explanations of how fires and heatwaves are or are not related to climate change. ">Seth Borenstein at Wunderground...
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Massive wind-stoked wildfires rage through Colorado forests
2013-06-24 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A trio of wind-driven wildfires roared unchecked across 76,000 acres of national forest in southwest Colorado on Monday and firefighters held the line against flames threatening the mountain town of South Fork. Crews have been hampered in battling the West Fork Complex fires - which consist of three separate blazes - by the steep mountainous terrain and winds in excess of 50 miles an hour (80 km/h) on some ridgelines. South Fork, the town of 600 residents evacuated last week as flames crept...
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In Colorado, wildfires may drive up costs of living in paradise
2013-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As five major wildfires rage at the onset of a fire season far from over, many in this state are saying the time has come to consider toughening building regulations and shifting some fire protection costs to those who live in danger zones. After the deadly 2012 Waldo fire at the time the most damaging in state history, with 346 homes lost and two deaths Gov. John Hickenlooper convened a task force to begin to look at ways to restrict or at least rethink how to build on forestland. Then the...
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Raging wildfires force evacuation of two Colorado towns
2013-06-21 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three wildfires sparked by lightning raged out of control in rugged Colorado mountain terrain on Friday, prompting the evacuation of two towns and menacing a third. The West Fork Fire Complex - consisting of two separate fires in Rio Grande County in southern Colorado - forced 600 residents of South Fork to flee as high winds helped the blazes grow from 12,000 acres to 30,000 acres overnight. "The fire behavior we saw yesterday was so extreme, it was ... unprecedented," said Eric Norton, a...
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Raging Colorado, Arizona wildfires prompt evacuations
2013-06-21 03:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Several wildfires raged unchecked across drought-parched Colorado on Thursday, one threatening oil and gas wells close to the Utah border and another about 300 miles to the southeast chased a group of Boy Scouts from their camp near New Mexico. A separate wind-whipped fire roaring through chaparral and pine forests in central Arizona forced the evacuation of about 460 homes near the town of Prescott, about 100 miles north of Phoenix. Scorching temperatures, low humidity and gusting winds have...
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