05/18/2024

Carbon, Wind and Fire

Thousands of buildings and some 300,000 acres—10 times as much land as the city of San Francisco—have gone up in flames this week as three massive wildfires blazed across northern California. Tens of thousands of people have abandoned their homes, and Jerry Brown thinks he’s found the villain: fossil fuels.

At a press conference on Monday, the Governor warned that the wildfires are a result and portent of cataclysmic climate change. “This is the future, from now on. It’s going to get worse, just by the nature of how the…

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