Mother Jones suggests that trace amounts of CO2 are causing "plagues of biblical proportions" to descend upon the American Southwest

The Southwest's Forests May Never Recover From Megafires | Mother Jones

Given these plagues of biblical proportions—fire, heat, drought and insects—the future for the Southwest's forests looks dim. Whether they will survive at all may depend on what we do—or fail to do—in the next few years on the biggest plague of all: climate change.