Like clockwork the left blames every natural disaster on global warming despite the fact there has been no increase in global temperatures over the last 15 years.

Via HuffPo:

The Big Meadows fire has already engulfed more than 600 acres of forest and could rage for several more days.

So what is the link to climate change?

The wildfire is being fuelled by a great abundance of dead trees that have fallen victim to the voracious appetite of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae.

The beetle lays its eggs in the bark of pine trees, and the larvae burrow inside, satisfying their appetites by eating the inner parts of the tree. However, the lifecycle can only be completed if the larvae are eventually released from the confines of the wood, so adults launch mass attacks to lay thousands of eggs in a susceptible tree within just a few days in order to kill it. […]

Researchers have discovered that the lifecycle of the mountain pine beetle is controlled by temperature. Adults emerge at the same time, triggered by the first onset of warm weather. Bouts of cold winter weather kill off many larvae, acting as a natural limit on the beetle population.

But western North America has been experiencing milder winters and warmer summers over the past few decades due to global warming, so the beetle population has exploded in Colorado and elsewhere. And the warmer temperatures have even allowed the beetle to evolve so that it completes two lifecycles in a year, instead of just one.