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Well, ever since Trump was inaugurated for the second time, it is felt like the world is on fire,

and that's in no small part due to the fact that huge swaths of our country really are on fire.

California's Palisades fire covering some 24,000 acres in western Los Angeles, is still burning.

Been burning for weeks.

The Eaton Blaze is still burning.

And not so long ago, just recently, a new wildfire.

The huge fire sparked and rapidly charred more than 10,000 acres in northern Los Angeles.

It just keeps going and going and going. And Mac of Republicans, they love to hit Mayor, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Bass for being out of the country when this tragedy first started.

They love to spread misinformation about the water supply in L.A. Fire hydrants and California's forest management.

But you know what they don't like to talk about? Because it's a distraction, what they don't like to talk about, the reality of climate change.

Our climate crisis and how it is worsening natural disasters across this country.

Wildfire tearing through one of the world's wealthiest and most celebrated cities is staggering.

But the latest evidence from the EU's

Climate Monitoring Service suggests the fires are remarkable just because of where they are,

but why? Last year was the hottest ever recorded. Not everywhere, as this map of air temperature

shows, but averaged out 2024 was 1.6 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times.

Look at that data another way, and you can see just how anomalously warm

23 and 2024 were.

The analysis also found that that warmer atmosphere also held the highest moisture levels

ever recorded 5% more than the 30-year average.

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