Sunday, August 15, 2010

Did human CO2 emissions cause this fire 100 years ago?

The big burn of 1910: ‘A thousand year event’ - Daily Inter Lake: Local/Montana
Steven Pyne, in his “Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire” captures the almost Biblical proportions of the Big Blow- up on Aug. 20 and 21, 1910, that cremated three million acres in Idaho and Montana, taking the lives of 78 Forest Service firefighters and at least seven civilians.

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