Just yesterday, in a speech to the Society of American Foresters
U.S. Forest Service chief Gail Kimbell says the nation can expect more wildfires like the ones raging through Southern California as global climate change heats up the world’s forests.
“Fires are burning hotter and bigger, becoming more damaging and dangerous to people and to property,” Kimbell said Wednesday. “Each year the fire season comes earlier and lasts longer.”
And, Kimball warned of other Global Warming impacts in the speech, such as greater vulnerability to invasive species.
It seems that Kimball’s speech somehow slipped through the White House’s continued proclivity to edit scientific fact and truth out of agency commentary.
The White House made deep cuts in written testimony given to a Senate committee this week by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on health risks posed by global warming,
Note: See Global Warming did fan the flames
Yet again …
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1 Global Warming did not cause the tornados! Did it? « Energy Smart // Feb 8, 2008 at 4:22 am
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2 ED’s Krupp calls on Green Groups to avoid talking about Global Warming? // Sep 5, 2008 at 3:35 pm
[…] us be clear: damage from storms (or wildfires or floods or …) cannot be isolated to Global Warming’s impact. There would have been […]
3 “do not wonder …” // Jun 10, 2011 at 6:00 am
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4 Global Warming did not cause the tornados! Did it? (revisited) // Dec 7, 2013 at 6:57 pm
[…] caused the California fires” of 2007, even if Global Warming did fan the flames (see also Forest Chief Warns of Global Warming threat) nor is possible to say that Moscow’s clouded skies last year were due to Climate Disruption […]