Apocalyptic orange skies, mass evacuations, people fleeing blazes near the water, and fires visible from satellites. As wildfires rage on the US west coast, the situation is is eerily reminiscent of Australia’s deadly bushfire event last summer.
Earlier this week, Washington Governor Jay Inslee said 330,000 acres of his state burned in just 24 hours.
Professor Bradstock said records - in terms of the size of the wildfires - have been broken virtually every year in California for the last four or five years. “It’s reinforcing a message that the climate is changing and it’s producing fires and losses of people that are unprecedented.” "There's no question that the attribution is very clear in the extreme weather that drives these fires," he said.
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