Are Colorado's wildfires caused by global warming? - CSMonitor.com

"You can't say it's climate change just because it's an extreme condition," said Colorado state climatologist Nolan Doesken. So far, Doesken told LiveScience, the spring of 2012 looks much like the spring of 1910, when warm temperatures hit early. That year, he said, was a bad one for fires.

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Western fires: Payback time? — The Daily Climate

Fire activity for the last 100 years has been remarkably low compared to the past three millennia, Bartlein and his colleagues concluded.