{"id":1330,"date":"2017-10-20T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2017-10-22T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T00:21:52","slug":"report-u-s-fire-seasons-are-only-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"Report: U.S. Fire Seasons are Only Getting Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/554254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a1\/Redcanyonfirenight.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Canyon wildfire at night. Photo courtesy of inciweb.nwcg.gov.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bigger, hotter wildfires \u2014 and more of them \u2014 are becoming the new normal, and a combination of climate change, sub-par fire management and budget limitations are to blame, says an October 2017 National Wildlife Federation report.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/554254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why U.S. Wildfires Are Bigger, Hotter And More Frequent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigger, hotter wildfires \u2014 and more of them \u2014 are becoming the new normal, and a combination of climate change, sub-par fire management and budget limitations are to blame, says an October 2017 National Wildlife Federation report. Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk: Why U.S. Wildfires Are Bigger, Hotter And More &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1330\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Report: U.S. Fire Seasons are Only Getting Worse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,50,3,49],"tags":[72,1337,1336,1335],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology-and-meteorology","category-geoscience","category-science","category-water-issues","tag-climate-change","tag-drought","tag-national-wildlife-federation","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}