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Colorado's record-breaking wildfires show "climate change is here and now"
CBS "News" ^ | October 20, 2020 | By Jeff Berardelli

Posted on 10/20/2020 6:35:01 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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To: bray

:)


41 posted on 10/20/2020 7:19:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Jane Long

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


42 posted on 10/20/2020 7:19:27 AM PDT by CarolinaPeach
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


43 posted on 10/20/2020 7:27:35 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("All men and women created by - go - you know, you know - the thing")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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


44 posted on 10/20/2020 7:43:39 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: chiller

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


45 posted on 10/20/2020 7:48:40 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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


46 posted on 10/20/2020 8:08:27 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: crusty old prospector
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.
47 posted on 10/20/2020 8:13:30 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Colorado's record-breaking wildfires show "climate change is here and now" a lot of arson
48 posted on 10/20/2020 11:11:26 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Forest Management incompetence is here and now.”


49 posted on 10/20/2020 11:28:06 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You can show that again...


50 posted on 10/20/2020 12:37:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you're neverTrump at this point, drop the charade, you're just I never the United States.)
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