[RightWhale]

I would guess wildfire is related somehow to rainfall. When it is hot here that usually means it hasn't rained at all except some lightning storms.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Lovely timing, Mother Nature, right at the point where there are going to be fewer and fewer adminstrative managers to work fire season each year...and they will be open to greater and greater liability when things go wrong....

[Flavius]

study links scientist to begging for grants

let them get real jobs

maybe in service or health sector like the rest of us

[AZLiberty]

I wish there was a hint of a causal explanation here. How does a warmer Atlantic affect forests that are, practically speaking, upwind?

[BenLurkin]

"a recurring warming period that typically lasts 20 to 60 years"

With no link to the so-called "greenhouse gases" evidently(?)

[kipita]

Ron Neilson, a U.S. Forest Service scientist who has developed models that predict wildfire danger based on climate models, agreed with the study's conclusions, and noted all the oceans are affected by global warming. And that in turn could exacerbate the wildfire cycle.

In other news, Dr. Spock, a Vulcan scientist from a distant planet, has developed a model that predicts wildfire danger and global warming are due to "dark energy forces of dying stars" about 26 light years away from earth. Because all stars are related, our sun develops "sun spots" (a dark spot in remembrance of fallen stars) which directly cause these environmental problems. For more details, please go to "catchafallenstar.com".

[Psycho_Bunny]

Laboratory of Tree Ring Research at the University of Arizona

Ya....because when I think "Trees", I think "Arizona".

 

[DustyMoment]

scientists have found that extended periods of major wildfires in the West occurred when the North Atlantic Ocean was going through periodic warming.

Oh great!! So now the fish are driving SUVs and causing the warming that leads to wildfires!!!!

What's next!?

[Wuli]

"Another factor in the larger fires, said Swetnam, is that after a century of fighting wildfires, fuel is building up in the nation's forests."

Yes, in times long ago when nature started forest fires and there was no U.S. national forestry service they burned themselves out, in time. And then when the next dry/warming cycle came there were some areas with less dense growth and thus more smaller fires, and fewer big fires, in those areas - sometimes.

Now, we intervene at almost every fire, the forests that remain get more dense and when the major drying cycle hits, we have saved more fuel for it to burn.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

"Laboratory of Tree Ring Research"

Has a nice tree to it.

[calex59]

Of course more fires have nothing to do with the fact we don't keep the forest as clean as we used to thanks to the greenies.