Climate Change Increases Threat of Fire to U.S. West

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“If climate change drives temperature up a degree or two,” goes the common dismissal, “how bad could that be?”

Here’s an example: Higher temperatures draw moisture out of live and dead trees and brush, making them more flammable. The heat also can alter precipitation, as well as shift spring thaw earlier, lengthening the fire season. A one degree Celsius climb in average global temperature could cause the median area burned annually by wildfires in parts of the American West to increase up to sixfold. “A one-degree rise could occur well before 2050,” notes Jeremy Littell, a climate and fire researcher at the University of Washington, who created the projections with the U.S. Forest Service and other institutions.

Scientists in Canada have reached similar conclusions about their western region. The U.S. prediction applies to area burned during median fire years; extreme fire years would consume still more area. Unfortunately, as temperature goes up, Littell predicts, “what were historically big fire years may become more frequent.”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=up-in-flames

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If you stare hard enough at a stock chart, draw enough lines, connect enough dots, and use enough of the formulas you will THINK you can figure out where the stock is going

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If you stare hard enough at a stock chart, draw enough lines, connect enough dots, and use enough of the formulas you will THINK you can figure out where the stock is going

You think science is like the stock market?

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If you stare hard enough at a stock chart, draw enough lines, connect enough dots, and use enough of the formulas you will THINK you can figure out where the stock is going

Yeah but who does that? With all the analytics tools available in the market, who stares at a chart for hours anymore?

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You think science is like the stock market?

http://www.accuweather.com/video/610053773001/climate-trends-similar-to-stoc.asp

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum/

http://www.physorg.com/news11164.html

http://esciencenews.com/sources/scientific.blogging/2008/10/29/natures.stock.market.predicting.boom.and.bust.ecologies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080211100947.htm

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Yeah but who does that? With all the analytics tools available in the market, who stares at a chart for hours anymore?

Well not hours but it does take time to draw those pretty lines and connect those dots....Some traders have a bias opinion of where they want the stock to go and then they keep having to adjust and adjust the indicators until it fits their view....In other words, they search and search and search until they find the pattern they are looking for...