Colorado’s record-breaking wildfires show “climate change is here and now”

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BY JEFF BERARDELLI

OCTOBER 20, 2020 / 8:04 AM / CBS NEWShttps://www.cbsnews.com/embed/video/?

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The Cameron Peak fire, a few miles west of Fort Collins, Colorado, has engulfed over 200,000 acres and it’s still growing. It has now become the biggest wildlife in Colorado history.

What’s more astounding is that the Cameron Peak fire is the second fire in 2020 to hold the title of largest wildfire in Colorado history. ThePine Gulchfire near Grand Junction briefly held that title, but for only 7 weeks, having burned 139,000 acres in late summer.

Looking at this in a vacuum, you might think of it as mere coincidence. But zooming out, you need only look two states away in California to find evidence of more unprecedented fires.Six of the 7 largest wildfiresin California history haveall burned in 2020, andthe largest, the August Complex fire

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