Article 58NDF America's year of fire and tempests means climate crisis just got very real

America's year of fire and tempests means climate crisis just got very real

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Oliver Milman
from Environment | The Guardian on (#58NDF)

Record-breaking wildfires and hurricanes were just the most high-profile effects of global heating - and this is only the start

In a flurry of recent fires and storms, the climate crisis has left unmistakable wounds on America. Even in a tumultuous year not short of anguish elsewhere, scientists warn the climate-fueled disasters of 2020's summer point to major shifts that will upend Americans' lives like no other threat.

The American west has experienced its biggest year of fire on record, with blazes the collective size of Connecticut roaring across a tinderbox-dry landscape, consuming thousands of buildings, claiming several dozen lives and turning the Bay Area's sky an eerie orange.

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