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\par  Overall, the carbon dioxide trends helps out the research objective because the ocean temperature anomaly data is increasing as well. This means that there is a correlation which exists between the increasing carbon dioxide concentration and warmer temperature anomalies.    \par Figure 8 shown above showing shows  the number of fires every year has some interesting anomalies. The red trend line for the graph has a negative slope which means that overall, since 1960, the numbers of fires have been decreasing. This is intriguing considering in figure 9, the amount of acres burned every year has been increasing. Another anomaly in figure 8 is the sudden drop around 1983. Before this drop the figure shows that the number of fires was consistently very high for about 10 years. After this low, the number of fires slightly increases again but the number stays below any of the previous years. \par To better compare the Figure 8 and 9, they were combined without the trend lines in figure 15. This plot clearly shows similar spikes in the data around 1975 to 1982 and what appears to be a divergence between the plots starting in a bout 2000. This divergence indicates an increasing severity of fires as shown in the next figure.   \par As analyzed above, global temperature is increasing and in areas that are hot and dry, increasing temperatures makes the areas hotter and drier. With drier conditions there is more fuel for the fires to burn. This accounts for the increasing severity of the fires.  \par