Thursday, June 17, 2010

Climate change and rising fire risk- Repost

See Climate Change repost from Sloan Management Review..

As fires sweep through the hills outside Los Angeles, the question arises: Are wildfires with us for the foreseeable future? In this post, What a 1-Degree Temperature Increase Means for Wildfires, Tom Kenworthy of the Center for American Progress says yes, due to climate change. “Inaction,” he notes, “will cost the western United States dearly.”

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