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...from your linked article...it all comes down to accelerating Global Warming/Climate Change...this wild fire season is unprecedented and unanticipated ..even with all the previous experiences. Also, on the other end of the disaster spectrum...Florida is also faced with serious long term planning challenges due to Climate Change, what with so much habitation in low lying land vulnerable to higher and more frequent storm surges.
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Rajinder Sahota, deputy executive officer of the Air Resources Board, discussed the study’s findings on KPCC’s “AirTalk” on Wednesday. She said California’s 2020 greenhouse gas targets, set in 2006, were “focused on the root cause of climate change, which is energy and combustion of fossil fuels in the state.”

“What we didn’t know then, and what we’ve learned now, is that the climate impacts have accelerated,” Sahota said, noting that the combustion of fossil fuels has contributed to the intensification of wildfires in the last decade. (Fourteen of the state’s 20 largest wildfires on record have occurred since 2010, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.)

“So not only do we need to think about the evolution of how we set our targets past 2020 ... but we also have to acknowledge that we’re planning for energy and our forestry sector in a changing landscape,” Sahota said.
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Time to Wake Up...and Look Up, Curly...and stop denying the Reality of Climate Change.