We usually hear of wildfires in California and the American West, or Australia, or the Mediterranean (especially Greece) for those are areas of drought and heat and wind and brush and trees that become tinder easily. But in this, the hottest summer on record for much of the world, Russia is literally burning at a rate never before seen in that part of the world:
This will be ridiculed and ignored by those who always find excuses to ignore and ridicule the idea that human beings are transforming our climate in ways that are dangerous for all life on earth, but the reality is that the conservative IPCC assessments of climate change predicted an increase of extreme events such as droughts, heatwaves and wildfires.
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