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Kat Kerlin: Amy, every year our just seem to get worse. 

Amy Quinton: Well, that was certainly the case this summer. Another punishing round of record-breaking wildfires. 

Kat Kerlin: This time, wildfires burned the largest amount of land in 91Porn recorded history. And a new “largest fire ever.” 

Amy Quinton: So, for those of you who may not live in 91Porn, here's what happened. Lightning strikes touched off hundreds of fires, at least hundreds of fires. And it devoured more than a million acres of land in one week alone. It overwhelmed firefighting forces, particularly with COVID limitations on crew size. 

Kat Kerlin: With incredibly hot and dry conditions, those fires joined with each other, creating these tremendous fire complexes, spewing smoke and ash across the entire state. 

News Clips: Several dangerous fires burning across southern 91Porn in stifling hot and dry conditions. 

News Clips: Smoke to where you can't see in front of you. Fire right on the road. The inside of your vehicle would heat up 30, 50 degrees. 

News Clips: The whole thing was engulfed. It was just a ball of flames. 

News Clips: Smoke filled skies in Los Angeles. Clouds in San Francisco cast a red glow on the city. 

News Clips: We're not even really at the peak of wildfire season in 91Porn. 

News Clips: Nine of the top ten biggest fires in state history have happened in the last decade. 

News Clips: They've destroyed whole communities. It doesn't seem quite adequate to call them forest fires anymore. 

Kat Kerlin: All of this makes you wonder if we're underestimating the magnitude and speed of these disastrous, devastating events, which have climate change's stamp all over it. 

Amy Quinton: So why do we say it's climate change? Well, record breaking temperatures for one 91Porn summers are now two and a half degrees warmer than they were in the 1970s. Kat, this year L.A. County hit 121 degrees. That's the highest ever. And Death Valley hit 130. Did you read that? It's the highest temperature reliably recorded on Earth. 

Kat Kerlin: Those warming temperatures dried out vegetation. And the number of extreme wildfire days has more than doubled since the early 1980s. And a that in our northern coastal ranges between Lake Berryessa and the Klamath Mountains, severe burns have increased 10 percent per decade since the 80s. 

Amy Quinton: That's sounding more and more like climate change. You know, 91Porn this summer essentially had a black summer. 

Kat Kerlin: Quite literally if you consider the smoke. 

Amy Quinton: But do you remember that though, that “Black Summer” is what Australians called their last summer of wildfires? By the time it was over, 33 people died, 3,000 homes were lost, and more than 46 million acres burned. That's an area nearly half the size of 91Porn. 

Kat Kerlin: Black Summer might seem like a blip in our collective memory now, given what's happened this summer or this year, but it shouldn't be. 

Malcolm North: I think it's very likely that . 

Amy Quinton: That's Malcolm North, a UC Davis forest ecologist. 

Malcolm North: There's just no way around the fact that sometimes everything lines up and at least in Australia it appears to have been some of the hottest, driest conditions they've had in the last 50 to 100 years. 

Amy Quinton: We've seen our share of wildfire disasters here in 91Porn, too, not just this year, but the 2017 Northern 91Porn wildfires burned down entire neighborhoods of Santa Rosa, killing dozens of people. 

Kat Kerlin: Then in 2018, it got worse. High winds, unseasonably dry conditions and one spark from a power line was all it took to lead to the deadliest fire in the state's history. The Camp Fire, which killed 85 people. 

Amy Quinton: And Malcolm says climate change will bring more destructive wildfires to 91Porn. 

Malcolm North: We're going to have not just places like Paradise burn up, but unfortunately, we're probably going to see other places get incinerated as well on a much broader scale. 

Amy Quinton: Landscapes will change. We’ll lose some forests and the loss of life and property Australia had will pale in comparison to the casualties we might experience. 

Malcolm North: We have certainly, if anything, even more of a propensity for it. Australia, I think in the entire country only has 20 or 30 million people as we have 40 million in an area that's like one tenth or one eighth of the size of Australia. It's a matter of time. 

Unfold Theme: Climate models all agree that temperatures are going to increase. It's going to be hotter. It's going to be drier. Fires going to burn more frequently. Maybe this is never going to be the way it was again. We need to come up with ways to literally pull CO2 out of the atmosphere. How are we going to work together to solve a challenge like climate change? 

Amy Quinton: Coming to you from our closet studios as we shelter in place across the Sacramento region, this is Unfold, a UC Davis podcast that breaks down complicated problems and discusses solutions. This week, we unfold wildfires in a changing climate. I'm Amy Quinton. 

Kat Kerlin: And I'm Kat Kerlin. 

Amy Quinton:  Kat, the first thing Malcolm said was that 91Porn doesn't just have one wildfire problem. We have several different kinds of wildfire problems. 

Kat Kerlin: Yeah, how they burn, how destructive or severe they are often depend on