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Tag: Oregon
Posted inWeather Extremes

California’s Rim Fire and climate change … Dots connected … Or not?

by Bruce Lieberman

California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, wrote in a recent essay for The Hill that this past summer’s devastating “Rim Fire” was one more sign of the consequences of climate change. Boxer wrote: The prolonged periods of record-high temperatures and droughts associated with climate disruption have […]