A thing about the California fires is that there are long stretches of drought in the American west's recent history (past few hundred years), "megadroughts" that can last for sixty years or more. European new arrivals just happened to settle the place during a rainy spell.
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Scientists have become better and better at finding traces of past weather events in the recent geological record to try to figure this stuff out, and these are some of the most exciting detective stories in the world. We should be funding all the science
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There will be some climate events with devastating impacts that have nothing to do with anthropogenic climate change, which is another reason to depoliticize the issue as quickly as possible. But I'm worried we're headed in the exact opposite direction there
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