The blaze forced more than 3,000 people to evacuate and exploded to 17,000 acres seemingly overnight – what made it so devastating?
What does the climate crisis have to do with it?
At the same time the state has been plagued by a grueling drought that experts estimate is the driest 22-year stretch in at least 1,200 years. Drought is A firefighting aircraft drops retardant ahead of the Oak fire on 24 July 2022 near Jerseydale, California.The climate crisis is causing more heatwaves. As the arctic warms faster than the rest of the globe, there is less and less difference between temperatures in the north and closer to the equator.
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