Yesterday, 19 firefighters died in Arizona, battling a forest fire that scientists are calling the, "new normal". Climate change is to blame, but like tsunamis and tropical cyclones, is only one part of a triangle that involves policy decisions and landuse. I would add socioeconomic vulnerability and poor education and communication to the statement by fire historian Stephen Pyne below- “The natural conditions, particularly climate, the land-use changes that interact with it and how we add or subtract fire, those are the three parts of the fire triangle. Almost all of those are pointing in the same direction — bigger, more damaging fires." nytimes/2013/07/02/us/experts-see-a-hotter-drier-west-with-more-huge-fires.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 02:20:37 +0000
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