President Trump’s uninformed comments notwithstanding, the science is clear: climate change causes an increase in the number and intensity of wildfires.
Over the last several years, a picture has emerged of the American west in a climate-changed world. Water Last week findings of a study by the U.S. Geological Survey show a sharp decline in the snowpack of the northern Rocky Mountains over the past 30 years. Published in the journal Science, the study says the “almost unprecedented” decline, as compared…