USA: Déjà vu fire season off to a roaring start in Colorado
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Center for American Progress Action Fund
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In Colorado, the fire season seems to repeat the previous year's devastation. This is in line with studies predicting climate change induced destructive wildfires, reports CAPAF's Climate Progress.
A 2012 study for example found that wildfire burn season is two and a half months longer than it was 40 years ago, and that for every one degree Celsius temperature increase the earth experiences, the area burned in the western U.S. could quadruple.
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