More climate change propaganda from the National Academy of Sciences. I’ll bet there isn’t a single Exxon/Koch
sponsored researcher in the whole place.
If you live in the west, or Canada, or Australia, or Spain…you might
want to consider the impact of a warming planet on the local forests. You can bet the energy companies won’t give
it a second thought.
"No matter how
hard we try, the fires are going to keep getting bigger, and the reason is
really clear," said study coauthor Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at
Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "Climate is really
running the show in terms of what burns. We should be getting ready for bigger
fire years than those familiar to previous generations."
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Mike Daniels
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Fires in western
forests began increasing abruptly in the 1980s, as measured by area burned, the
number of large fires, and length of the fire season. The increases have
continued, and recently scientists and public officials have in part blamed
human-influenced climate change. The new study is perhaps the first to quantify
that assertion. "A lot of people are throwing around the words climate
change and fire—specifically, last year fire chiefs and the governor of
California started calling this the 'new normal,' " said lead author John
Abatzoglou, a professor of geography at the University of Idaho. "We
wanted to put some numbers on it."
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