Reply #3: I don't see how that conflicts with the article.

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or how that demonstrates the article to be "misrepresenting" the socal fires.

Just because the greatest increases were in "mid-elevation, Northern Rockies forests", it doesn't change the studies observation that earlier/drier spring and drier summers with increased temps are creating conditions for more and more intense wildfires accross Southern California. Further down the studies discusion it says:

"Most wildfires in the Southern Rockies and Southern California have also occurred in early snowmelt years, but again forest area there is small relative to the Northern Rockies and Northern California. Thus, although land-use history is an important factor for wildfire risks in specific forest types (such as some ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests), the broad-scale increase in wildfire frequency across the western United States has been driven primarily by sensitivity of fire regimes to recent changes in climate over a relatively large area."
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/313/5789/940


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edit: that absolutely supports what you objected to in the article. I think you should retract your claim that the article "misrepresents" the studies findings in the context of socal.