How much of this fire, costliest in Colorado history, a climate change story? The answer is complex. But surely it will strongly influence state policy.
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Welcome to Yosemite, the new Pyrocene Park
Binge-burning of fossil fuels has put afterburners on our millennia-long process of ending the Pleistocene, its ice and its mammoths. Welcome to the Pyrocene.
Our new age of fire
As wildfires explode in the West but even in Greenland, fire expert Steve Pyne helps us understand the “pyrocene,” the planetary age of fire, one that we have created.
Colorado’s Troublesome megafire
In a year of big fires, the East Troublesome may have had the most unsettling as Colorado enters a new era for wildfire, one in which old norms are demolished.
