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The Yosemite Inferno in the Context of Forest Policy, Ecology and Climate Change
2013-08-29 18:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Assessing the drivers of wildfire trends in the American West these days can be akin to Hercule Poirots task on the Orient Express, on which there was one murder with 12 final suspects all of whom were guilty. For western [wild]fire (its hard to see how the wild part of that word applies any more, given how many human factors are involved), the suspects are a century of accumulated fire debt from fire suppression efforts, development and road construction, natural fluctuations in drought and...
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Car dealer's bid for 1m life insurance before dying in BMW inferno
2013-07-04 10:48:30| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
A HAMPSHIRE car dealer tried to take out a A 1m life insurance policy before he died in an inferno in his BMW outside his home, it has been revealed.
Little Inferno Gleefully Ignites the Deep Dark Pyro Within
2013-02-04 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
From what I've seen of humanity, there's a little pyro locked inside most of us. Maybe it's a universal longing to chase away the darkness with warmth and light, or maybe it's just a genetic quirk coded into our DNA from the days of the Ice Age when cooking up a wooly mammoth meant survival. Or maybe we just really like to see things burn.
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Australian inferno previews fire-prone future
2013-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: CLIMATE change is ramping up fire risk around the world. In Australia, home to some of the most fire-prone regions on Earth, the bush fires raging now could be a taster of what's to come. Parts of the world where the fire risk is rising can learn from Australia's experience, says John Handmer, director of the Centre for Risk and Community at RMIT University in Melbourne. A good place to start would be "uninhabitable zones" - places where the fire risk is so high no homes should be built. Such...
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Australias Climate Inferno Encroaching on Entirely New Territory
2013-01-11 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Australia`s top government-appointed climate commissioner says this week`s heatwave is occurring amid record-breaking weather around the world. "This has been a landmark event for me," Professor Tim Flannery told Climate Desk from his home in Melbourne. "When you start breaking records, and you do it consistently, and you see it over and over again, that is a good indication there`s a shift underway--this is not just within the normal variation of things." Flannery is perhaps best known in the...
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climate
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