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Originally Posted by Kirk  From the link you quoted....
"The increase in large wildfires appears to be another part of a chain of reactions to climate warming," said study co-author Dan Cayan, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Climate Research Division. "The recent ramp-up is likely, in part, caused by natural fluctuations, but evidence is mounting that anthropogenic effects have been contributing to warmer winters and springs in recent decades." |
These are your boys, I set your ass up. These are statements made by Westerling. Which is....
Anthony (Tony) Westerling Personal Home Page
In his research, he stated.....
Both antecedent climate and meteorology
played important roles in the recent extreme
wildfires in southern California.After a multiyear
drought contributed to extensive mortality
in western forests and chaparral, late winter
precipitation and a cool spring and early summer
fostered the growth of grasses that were
cured out during a hot summer and autumn
in 2003, producing an extensive fine fuel coverage.
Fanned by moderate Santa Ana winds, during the last century.
Moreover, charcoal
records from Santa Barbara Channel sediments
indicate the frequency of wildfires in the
region has not changed significantly in the
last 500 years [Mensing et al.,1999].
http://ulmo.ucmerced.edu/~westerling...Westerling.pdf
That's straight from an enviromental wacko like yourself....