Nearly 20 major wildfires have torn through California in the last month, killing at least six people and causing thousands more to flee their homes. “What we’re seeing over the last few years in terms of the wildfire season in California … [is] very consistent with the historical trends in terms of increasing temperatures, increasing dryness, and increasing wildfire risk,” Stanford Earth System Science Professor Noah Diffenbaugh told The Independent. California recorded 9,560 wildfires in 2017 – about 2,000 more than the year before, according to the US Forest Service.

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