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How Climate Change Has Fueled L.A.’s Devastating Wildfires: ‘We Have Unleashed Forces Beyond Our Control’
'We have unleashed forces that are beyond our control': Environmental experts explain how erratic weather patterns have fueled L.A.'s firestorms.
The pain and suffering for humans is magnified by more than a century of expanded residential development in areas that are prone to fire, mudslides, drought as well as unpredictable amounts of rain and snow. Fierce Santa Ana winds are normal for Southern California, in part because the region has an unusual combination of mountain ridges that run both north and south and east and west. Despite the political winds in the U.S., and President-elect Donald Trump’s history of denying and aggravating climate-change issues, evidence is mounting in cities and towns across the country that the risks posed by erratic weather patterns are only increasing.
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