Are We Moving Toward a New Normal?

Fires are a result of climate change, but they're also accelerating and causing climate change. Ash can block sunlight from reaching surfaces; when that black ash falls on Arctic ice, because it's darker, it absorbs more sunlight and causes Arctic ice to melt faster. Permafrost melts, it becomes drier, it releases more greenhouse gases which warms the atmosphereMore hurricanes this year than ever before: 30 named storms with 12 making landfall - previous record was nine.