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Los Angeles burns: What you need to know | This is terrible. This is climate change.
(www.theclimatebrink.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Events never have just one cause. We often talk about them as if they do, but that isn't how things actually work in an interconnected world. Climate change is one of the significant exacerbating factors in these forest fires. Other factors are fuel and forest management practices. It's fair to call all of these causes of the fires. But you will never find a fire where you can say that only one thing caused it, particularly if that thing manifests in statistical trends in the likelihood and characteristics of these fires. We can only say that climate change made them more likely to happen and more likely to be severe.