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November 1st, 2007: Select Committee Hearing, "Wildfires and Global Warming"
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1:20:11Now Playing"A spark neglected makes a mighty fire."
--Robert Herrick
Following the devastating fires in Southern California, the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will hold a hearing examining the scientific link between a changing climate and the frequency and intensity of wildfires.
Witnesses will discuss the present effects of climate change on wildfires and contributing factors such as increased drought, changes in snowmelt patterns, changes in precipitation, and higher temperatures. In addition, mitigation and adaptation strategies will be discussed.
The frequency and intensity of wildfires have increased in recent decades throughout the Western United States. Last year, the Forest Service spent a record $2.5 billion fighting wildfires that burned a record 9.9 million acres (4 million hectares), compared to the ten-year average of 6 million acres. This year 8.7 million acres have burned thus far. The current fires burning in California are expected to cause over $1 billion in property damage alone and have already burned an area the size of Rhode Island. Mounting scientific evidence indicates that the growth in wildfires is linked to global warming and that this trend is likely to intensify in the coming decades.
WHAT: Select Committee Hearing, "Wildfires and the Climate Crisis"
WHEN: Thursday, November 1st, 2007, 10 AM
WHERE: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
Or on the web at globalwarming.house.gov
WHO:
Abigail Kimbell, Chief, U.S. Forest Service
Dr. Steven Running, Professor of Ecology, University of Montana
Michael Francis, Director of Forest Program and Deputy Vice President, Wilderness Society
Dr. Michael Medler, Member of Firefighters United for Safety Ethics and Ecology, Assistant Professor at Huxley College
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