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Why have wildfires been so bad in recent years?

Well, if you immediately said,

duh, climate change,

oh, then okay, you're mostly right.

It's a disastrous new normal.

Catastrophic fires once contained a one season

now a heroin year-round battle.

A major factor, climate change.

In the last 40 years, fall temperatures in California

have increased about two degrees,

while precipitation has dropped about 30%.

Longer dry seasons and extreme events like heat waves

that synchronize the risk of fire across enormous landscapes.

Climate change is increasing the area burned by the average wildfire

more than doubling it since the 1980s.

Since 1930, five of the biggest fires so far

out of the top 10 have been this year.

California is America fast forward.

In other words, a postcard from the future.

Oh, man, are you serious?

California is basically a postcard from the future?

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