A Colorado wildfire jumped a firefighter perimeter line Tuesday night – forcing the evacuation of 32,000 residents and destroying a number of homes. The fire now covers 24-square miles and is even threatening the nearby U.S. Air Force Academy. The Colorado Springs fire chief called it a "firestorm of epic proportions." It's also a firestorm brought to us by climate change. As Derek Arndt, the head of climate monitoring at the National Climatic Data Center, noted – the nation is in the middle of a "super-heated spike on top of a decades-long warming trend." Climate change study after study has warned us about more frequent and more intense wildfires coming, yet Republican lawmakers are ignoring these warnings to keep the big bucks rolling in from the oil and coal barons.
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