California Fires

Misinformation about Los Angeles County’s devastating fires is spreading as wildly as wind- driven embers. Fact is, these catastrophic fires driven and grown by up to 100-mile-per-hour winds are powerful examples of how extreme weather and climate change due to global warming affect our communities. Climate change is whiplashing coastal southern California between flooding rainfall and extended drought, raising temperatures, and shifting seasons—all together, increasing risks for more frequent wildfires made bigger by high winds. Wet weather produces abundant wildland brush and grasses, drought and high temperatures desiccate vegetat...