This article is part of the Opinion Today newsletter. You can sign up here to receive the newsletter each weekday. By now you may have seen the hellish pictures of wildfires raging across Northern California. “This is climate change, for real and in real time,” The Sacramento Bee’s editorial board wrote last week. Besides making fires more likely, the heat also has the potential to make any fire more extreme.

Source: New York Times August 01, 2018 12:22 UTC