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Does Climate Change Have an Effect on Wild Forest Fires?

April 26, 2017climate change fires forest WILD

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Does Climate Change Have an Effect on Wild Forest Fires?

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According to Wikipedia’s page on *Effects of Global Warming*, acres per year burned by forest fires has steadily increased from 2.5 million acres burned to over 7 million acres burned in North America since 1970. Experts seem to think the cause is the early arrival of Spring due to global warming creating more desirable conditions for wildfires.