America On Fire… Why Is The Number Of Wildfires In The United States Increasing?

June 29th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

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As America watches large sections of Colorado literally burn to the
ground, many are wondering why all of this is happening. There have
always been wildfires, but what we are experiencing now seems very
unusual…

So is the number of wildfires in the United States
increasing? As you will see later in this article, the answer is yes.
2011 was a record setting year for wildfires and this wildfire season is
off to a very frightening start.

Right now the eyes of the nation are
focused on the Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado. It doubled in size
overnight and it has consumed more than 300 homes so far. It is
threatening the city of Colorado Springs, and at this point more than 35,000 people
have been forced to evacuate – including the U.S. Air Force Academy.

On Twitter and Facebook residents are describing what they are seeing as
“the apocalypse” and as “the end of the world”. But this is just the
beginning of the wildfire season. We haven’t even gotten to July and
August yet.

The Waldo Canyon fire is rapidly becoming one of the most expensive
and destructive wildfires in Colorado history. The historic Flying W
Ranch has already been burned totally to the ground by this fire. Local
authorities are struggling to find the words to describe how
nightmarish this fire is. The following are a couple of quotes from a CNN article….

Richard Brown, the Colorado Springs fire chief, described it as a “firestorm of epic proportions.”

Gov. John Hickenlooper surveyed the Waldo Canyon Fire, telling reporters it was a difficult sight to see.

“There were people’s homes burned to the ground. It was surreal,”
he said late Tuesday night. “There’s no question, it’s serious. It’s as
serious as it gets.”

But this is not the only wildfire that is raging in Colorado. Right
now there are 10 wildfires burning in the state. Overall, there are 33
large wildfires currently burning in twelve U.S. states.

If you will remember, New Mexico just experienced one of the worst
wildfires that it has ever seen. Conditions throughout most of the
western United States are ideal for wildfires right now. As USA Today reports, much of the western half of the country is under a “red flag warning” right now….

Throughout the interior West, firefighters have
toiled for days in searing, record-setting heat against fires fueled by
prolonged drought.

Most, if not all, of Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and
Montana were under red flag warnings, meaning extreme fire danger.

But wait, didn’t this kind of thing happen last year too?

Yes it did.

In fact, 2011 was one of the worst years ever for wildfires in America. The following is a short excerpt from an EarthSky article….

Thousands of wildfires raged across the United States
last year, 2011, burning a record amount of land, especially in the
southern U.S.

In fact, 2011 the third-most-active fire season since 1960
(when this record-keeping began) with respect to acres burned,
according to preliminary data released from the National Interagency
Fire Center (NIFC) in late December 2011.

The NIFC will be releasing an
official summary report detailing the 2011 wildfire season later in
2012, but for now you can read some of the details in the State of the
Climate Wildfires 2011 report from NOAA.

During 2011, a total of 73,484 wildfires burned an estimated
8,706,852 acres (35,235 square kilometers) of land across the United
States.

Wildfire activity during 2011 was exceptionally high and was
only exceeded in the historical record by wildfire activity during the
years 2006 and 2007.

We have seen highly unusual wildfire activity throughout America in recent years. In the article quoted above you can find a chart which shows that wildfire activity in the United States has been far above normal during the past decade.

Wildfire records have only been kept since 1960. The 6 worst years
on record for wildfires in the U.S. have all happened since the year
2000. The following is from an Earth Island Journal article that I found….

In the United States, where some of the most accurate
wildfire statistics are kept, the six worst fire seasons in the past 50
years have occurred since 2000.

In Texas, nearly 4 million acres were
burned in 2011, double the previous record. This included the Bastrop
Fire last September that destroyed 1,600 homes and became the most
destructive fire in Texas history.

In Arizona more than one million
acres were burned in 2011, a new record. The Wallow Fire, which
destroyed nearly a half million acres, was the largest fire in Arizona
history.

The Pagami Creek Fire in northern Minnesota became the third
largest fire in state history when it burned 100,000 acres in September
2011, most of this in an unprecedented 16-mile run on a single day.

So what does all of this mean?

It means that the number of wildfires in the United States is
increasing and wildfires are becoming more powerful and doing more
damage.

So what is causing all of this?

The truth is that this is happening because we are seeing
exceptionally dry conditions throughout the western half of the United
States. In fact, according to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences,
the U.S. interior west is now the driest that it has been in 500 years.

The eastern half of the country also gets very hot during the summer,
but they don’t have as many wildfires because they get a lot more rain.

Many areas in the western half of the country have been experiencing
drought conditions for quite a few years, and there seems to be no end
in sight for the drought.

If you go check out the U.S. drought monitor, you will see that almost the entire southwest United States is experiencing some level of drought right now.

So what will July and August bring?

It is kind of frightening to think about that.

Earlier this year I wrote an article that postulated that we could actually see dust bowl conditions return to the middle of the United States. Many readers were skeptical of that article.

But as much of the western United States continues to experience bone
dry conditions and continues to be ravaged by wildfires, perhaps more
people will understand how bad things are really getting in the interior
west.

Just because we have made great technological advances as a society
does not mean that we know how to tame nature. We can attempt to
contain the massive wildfires that are popping up all over the place and
we can attempt to deal with the drought, but in the end we cannot stop
what is happening.

So do you live in any of the areas that are being affected by these wildfires?

Do you have an opinion about why so much of America is on fire?

June 27, 2012 – TheEconomicCollapse

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