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RT @JCONASON: Unbelievable: #RickPerry demands $US millions for #wildfires -- but slashed firefighters by 75 percent? On NationalMemo ht ...
Unbelievable: #RickPerry demands $US millions for #wildfires -- but slashed firefighters by 75 percent? On NationalMemo http://t.co/tjHieAC
– Joe Conason (JCONASON) http://twitter.com/JCONASON/status/113083493059276800

via:packrati.us RickPerry wildfires

"decreased snowpack and increased lightning strikes are going to cause wildfire flare ups in Yosemite National Park:

According to research published in the International Journal of Wildland Fire, Yosemite is likely to see about a 20% increase in both the number of fires and the area of land which burns at high intensity, from 2020-2049. "

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I've seen the glow of fires 10 miles away from my hillside, and I've watched burning embers dance above a firefighters' command post and settle on that same hill. I've packed the essentials at 3 AM while the kids race their bikes past the Halloween-decorated lawns. I know that October is fire season.

This year, Los Angeles is burning in August, and it's unnatural.

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Aborigines once commonly used fire-stick farming to establish a patchwork of habitats in different stages of growth, and to continually create new environments for small game that could be hunted. The practice died out as European colonization swept the continent.

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Emergency organisations could be overwhelmed within seven years by the rising number of people in poor countries affected by floods, droughts, heatwaves, wild fires, storms, landslides and other climate hazards.

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