‘Loading the dice’: climate crisis could increase southern California wildfires

Thursday, February 17, 2022
Gabrielle Canon
The Guardian

A firefighter douses flames during the Creek fire in unincorporated Madera county, California, on 7 September 2020.

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‘Loading the dice’: climate crisis could increase southern California wildfires

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