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By Peter Mertz
DENVER, the United States Air Vapormax White , Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- A small team of environmental scientists in the U.S. state of Montana reignited a fiery national debate over global warming this week.
Three thousand miles (4,600 milometers) away, America's southeast was still submerged after a series of devastating hurricanes, but scientists living in the country's northwest were connecting the dots and claiming that signs of global warming were sweeping from coast to coast.
In 2017, Montana and Pacific Coast state Oregon had their worst wildfire seasons on record, with Montana losing one million acres (4,047 square kilometers) of land Air Vapormax Flyknit Black , according to Inciweb, an inter-agency all-risk incident online information management system provided by the United States Forest Service.
At the same time, heat records have been set or matched across much of the western states. In Los Angeles, a 131-year-old heat record in downtown fell in August and one month later the city had to fight with the largest fire by acreage in history.
"Between 1950 and 2015, Montana saw an average two-to-three degree (Fahrenheit) increase in temperature," said Montana climatologist Kelsey Jensco.
"That's double what the United States as a whole has seen," Jensco said Air Vapormax Black , noting that the worst news dealt with future weather predictions.
"The climate model suggests an additional 4-6 degrees (Fahrenheit) by the end of the century," Jensco's co-author Cathy Whitlock said.
In an exclusive interview with Xinhua on Friday, Whitlock, a University of Montana climate professor, said the entire scientific community is "100 percent in agreement that Montana is getting warmer."
"We will see more record days with temperatures in the nineties and less frost," she said, noting that snowpack will decline and extreme drought conditions are expected to continue "through the end of the century."
These startling revelations by Whitlock Air Vapormax Flyknit , along with Jensco and Nick Silverman from Montana State University, have single-handedly catapulted the climate change debate from East to West overnight.
Last week, the renowned Aspen Institute called for Congress to reverse President Donald Trump from retreating on hurricane-proof building standards announced just before Hurricane Harvey hit Texas.
"Extreme weather, like floods and hurricanes as well as other natural disasters exacerbated by climate change, will continue to occur more frequently and with little warning," the Institute warned on its website, calling for stricter construction codes in the wake of more anticipated disasters.
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Montana shares 600 miles (960 kilometers) of border with three Canadian provinces in America's northwest.
The study comes on the heels of two weeks of similar climate change concerns aired by environmental groups after America's southwest was slammed by a series of devastating hurricanes.
In late August, Hurricane Harvey set the record for most rainfall dropped by a storm and was the first to hit the mainland since 2005 when it drenched south Texas.
A month later, Cape Verde-type Hurricane Irma became the first Category 5 hurricane to hit southern Florida, and last week Category 4 Maria left the entire island of Puerto Rico without power.
The term global warming was coined by a Columbia University professor in a 1975 report in Science Magazine that predicted the climactic changes that have since occurred.
Wally Broecker, now 85 Nike Vapormax Flyknit Triple Navy , has watched his observation mushroom into a global movement adopted by virtually every scientist on Earth who agrees that greenhouse gases have contributed to temperature rises across the planet.
Global warming means surface temperatures from 1880 to 2016, that scientists have carefully measured, show an increase in the Earth's average surface temperature by almost 1°C.
For 2,000 years before 1850, historical climate studies show the Earth's temperature to have been relatively stable, according to a number of studies.
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In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed the Kyoto protocol, an agreement adopted by 192 countries to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
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"Bush's policy reversal received a massive wave of criticism from the international media and all the world leaders including China, Japan, and South Africa, who expressed their disappointment," the Tyndall Center for climate change research said at the time.
In 2012, four years after Bush had left office, the United States experienced its warmest year on re.