This is going to get tiresome

Nobody wants to hear it, it seems, but the Colorado wildfires are almost certainly global warming related.  

It was 105 degrees the day the Waldo Canyon fire hit, a new record for Colorado, and it hasn't rained in weeks.  Hot and dry conditions make for a mountain tinderbox.

High temperature records fell as the wave spread east, in many cases exceeding temperatures last seen during the "dust bowl" years of the 1930's.  Over 50 locations set all time highs, including 111 in Dodge City, Kansas and 115 in McCook, Nebraska.

What's worse, this is what you'd expect in the early stages of global warming.  In other words, it gets worse later on, and not all that much later on either.  What happens when the high temperature hits 125 in, say, Chicago?

Image:  "Hell in the rear view mirror," Colorado Springs Gazette, Jesse Kurtz, KKTV 11