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Wildfires Sparked by Climate Change

Monday, July 23, 2012
Climate Change dried out Colorado--hardly any snow fell in the winter, then spring rains didn't come. A spark was all that was needed to start a raging wildfire.
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Wildfires Caused by Global Warming?

Thursday, October 25, 2007

UPDATE - If you watched the evening news anytime during the past two weeks, you saw images of forest fires roaring through suburban neighborhoods in California. Does global warming have anything to do with this? UPDATE: Thanks to lower winds and the tireless efforts of firefighters, the California fires are finally winding down...

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How to Predict Where Forest Fires Will Strike

Friday, July 13, 2007

It's wildfire season again in California and the West. Researchers have developed a new way to predict when vegetation dries to the point it is most vulnerable to large-scale fires in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles. This year's forecast says the highest-risk fire period will begin July 13?weeks earlier than usual.

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Terrorist Forest Fires

Sunday, July 13, 2003

The annual summer wildfires are harmful both to our weather and to our health. Judd Slivka writes in The Arizona Republic that U.S. forests have been considered as possible targets by al-Qaeda terrorists. An al-Qaeda prisoner told the FBI he'd developed a plan to set midsummer forest fires in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. An FBI memo...

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