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Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-getting-hot-in-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to scientists we can look forward to more devastating wildfires like the ones scorching Southern California because of global warming. "The fires in California and here in Arizona are a clear example of what happens as the Earth warms, particularly as the West warms, and the warming caused by humans is making fire season longer and longer with each decade," said University of Arizona geoscientist Jonathan Overpeck. "It's certainly an example of what we'll see more of in the future.""

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  1. Re:Arson is blamed on Global Warming now? by OneAhead · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yep, because without arson, there would be no wildfires. Oh wait, no, there would.

    Or are you going to tell us that plants that are evolutionary adapted to fire or even need it to procreate were really created by God who knew there would always be humans around to start the necessary fires since the earth was created 10000 years ago?

  2. Facts are there by SuperKendall · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You may not care to look at facts, but they exist (search for droughts).

    I love how your response contained no links refuting what I said... because you are not basing your arguments from data, but from emotion.

    I expect your response to be something about the source of the link, without any more real facts on the matter. Good luck with that approach in life...

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    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
  3. Re:I thought weather was not climate... by ravenshrike · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Out of curiosity did any of the idiots crying wolf over climate change on this rodeo first chart spread of human habitation and any changes in land management? No? Didn't think so. Claim is utterly invalid.