And it's to the great, great loss of many already.
My sincere condolences to the recently homeless victims of a warming planet.
Colorado infernos likely to grow: 'Whatever is in its way, it's going to take'
by Ed Payne and Paul Vercammen, CNN, iReport -- June 13, 2013
Two ferocious wildfires are roaring across the region, scorching thousands of acres and devouring dozens of homes.
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"I thought I had about an hour, and it turned out to be about 20 minutes," she said. "I had a pillowcase full of socks, and that's basically all I have."
Firefighters have continued their assault on the flames from the ground and from the sky.
But high temperatures, dry brush and gusty winds are proving to be a catastrophic combination.
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"You've worked your whole life to have your own little place on this globe," said one man, his voice choked with emotion. "You find someplace that's special to you ... and then it's gone."
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I'd be choked up too. Often am, when I see what's happening to our planet.
But nobody could have of known the "storms" would be so furious,
-- except for maybe the Director of the U.S. Forest Service ...
Climate change causing US wildfire season to last longer, Congress told
by Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent, guardian.co.uk -- 4 June 2013
America's wildfire season lasts two months longer than it did 40 years ago and burns up twice as much land as it did in those earlier days because of the hotter, drier conditions produced by climate change, the country's forest service chief told Congress on Tuesday.
But the forest service was forced to make sharp cuts to fire prevention programmes, and reduce the numbers of fire-fighters and engines because of budget pressures, Thomas Tidwell, the chief of the United States Forest Service, told the Senate committee on energy and natural resources.
"Hotter, drier, a longer fire season, and lot more homes that we have to deal with," Tidwell told the Guardian following his appearance. "We are going to continue to have large wildfires."
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So the forecast calls for more heat, and more grief.
Uh oh!
But I heard Climate Change is just a Hoax. Our Republican Congress people tell us so.
It seems to me, the hoax part is really the "ignoring it" part, by Congress.
Just ask the uneasy residents of Colorado, right about now:
How that Climate Change 'Hoax' is working out for them?
Who says Climate Change has no victims, eh Congress? Same with the Sequester.
Who's side is the GOP really on?