Revisiting Flash Point: Living with Wildfire–Wildfires and Climate Change Perception
By Andrea Chalfin News Dir. On June 28, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Andrea Chalfin, Climate, Colorado, Fire, Flash Point: Living with Wildfire, KRCC News, Michelle Mercer, Series, Waldo Canyon Fire, Wildfires
Though wildfires have been definitively connected to climate change, megafires in the West haven’t shifted public opinion as drastically as environmentalists might hope.
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Researchers have found that repeated wildfires in the same region do tend to shift public opinion about climate change, so with back to back summers of megafires the Pikes Peak region may see greater interest in the effects of increased warming.
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