The carbon emitted by burning trees is actually accelerating global warming itself. This makes California's push to become a greener state, even harder. Water temperatures are drying out the state, creating a tinderbox condition. There's also positive feedback factor going on where wildfires create the conditions for more wildfires.
Protests have become as bold as they are widespread—mostly against the country’s unsustainable zero-covid policies, but increasingly against the ruling regime itself. California’s wildfires have been growing more intense, and a new analysis shows just how much those blazes undo the good work of the state’s green policies. And a look at the evolution of the Great British Lad.
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