A Spark Neglected: Wildfires and Global Warming

A Spark Neglected: Wildfires and Global Warming - Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming - 2007-11-01 - "A spark neglected makes a mighty fire." --Robert Herrick. Following the devastating fires in Southern California, the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will hold a hearing examining the scientific link between a changing climate and the frequency and intensity of wildfires. Witnesses will discuss the present effects of climate change on wildfires and contributing factors such as increased drought, changes in snowmelt patterns, changes in precipitation, and higher temperatures. In addition, mitigation and adaptation strategies will be discussed. The frequency and intensity of wildfires have increased in recent decades throughout the Western United States. Last year, the Forest Service spent a record .5 billion fighting wildfires that burned a record 9.9 million acres (4 million hectares), compared to the ten-year average of 6 million acres. This year 8.7 million acres have burned thus far. The current fires burning in California are expected to cause over billion in property damage alone and have already burned an area the size of Rhode Island. Mounting scientific evidence indicates that the growth in wildfires is linked to global warming and that this trend is likely to intensify in the coming decades. Witnesses: * Abigail Kimbell, Chief, U.S. Forest Service; * Dr. Steven Running, Professor of Ecology, University of Montana; * Michael Francis, Director of Forest Program and Deputy Vice President, Wilderness Society; * Dr. Michael Medler, Member of Firefighters United for Safety Ethics and Ecology, Assistant Professor at Huxley College. Video provided by the U.S. House of Representatives.

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[AnchorageDentist]

ouch.

[SupremeAmerican]

I cant believe people buy into this. They've already admitted illegals are setting a lot of them to distract the boarder agents

[MrAppleseed88]

As the sun melts our caps like it is doing to Mars as well, we get more liquid water. We need more plants to consume and drink this water and keep it form working as a gas...

More carbon is what is needed to allow vegetation to grow and produce food, and consume all this water and keep it from gas form.

[kptrickey]

This is not global warming....this is mismanagment of our forests by ignorance and environmentalists!

[blackman666ful]

From the looks of things the powers of the past and present had and still have a if God made it possible lets do it until indicators tell us not to do it mentality.We can see this mentality in products that were once very harmful to the environment but now have been made to do less damage to the environment.