Colorado's record-breaking wildfires show "climate change is here and now"

CBS "News" ^ | October 20, 2020 | By Jeff Berardelli

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Cameron Peak fire, a few miles west of Fort Collins, Colorado, has engulfed over 200,000 acres and it's still growing. It has now become the biggest wildlife in Colorado history.

This year Mother Nature has supplied us with smoking-gun evidence to prove what climate scientists have been warning about for decades. The scorched-earth impacts of climate change have arrived.

In a letter the editor published in the journal Global Change Biology, two of the world's foremost experts on wildfires conclude that the "[r]ecord-setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States."

"Our 2020 wildfire season is showing us that climate change is here and now in Colorado. Warming is setting the stage for a lot of burning across an extended fire season," says Dr. Jennifer Balch, professor of fire ecology and director of Earth Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder.

"Even as a scientist studying extreme weather & wildfire in a warming climate, I was shocked by how fast #CalwoodFire roared down the Colorado Front Range foothills," Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, wrote on Twitter, posting video of a swirling vortex of smoke.

Examining all the evidence, it's clear why conditions are extraordinarily flammable this fall. It's a compound issue of short-term natural climate variability layered on top of fundamental changes to the long-term climate from global warming.

[cuban leaf]

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[CarolinaPeach]

Just like the leftist opinion on gender, it’s whatever they want it to be at any particular time, and how dare anyone else question their science-y feelings on the matter.

Peach

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Because there has never been a record breaking forest fire since the last record breaking forest fire.....

And the one before that.

And the one before that.

[SkyDancer]

Interesting how climate change is so selective; it’s on in one place and not in another.

[DariusBane]

Pharaoh would jack off into the Nile to get it to rain. Maybe that’s what Jeffrey Toobin was doing.

[ballplayer]

Yes it is fall the leaves are falling and its getting cold

[American in Israel]

Pine bark beetle is also the cause of the California fires. Forestry used to keep it in check, but the Sieŕia Club blocked the harvesting of the outbreaks till it spread beyond control. Now there is virtually no harvesting taking place and the dead tree fuel load is astronomical. Tending a forest is a lot of work, ecologist types prefer to smoke a bong and talk about it instead.

[Trillian]

Colorado's record-breaking wildfires show "climate change is here and now" a lot of arson

[Mashood]

“Forest Management incompetence is here and now.”

[DoughtyOne]

You can show that again...