USA Today: As Southern California firefighters battled the Blue Cut Fire last month, there was nothing they could do to fend off an unfortunate reality: Global warming is already lengthening wildfire season and increasing the likelihood of extreme fires across the West. And conditions will only get worse in the coming decades.
California just suffered through its hottest summer on record: The Golden State's average temperature from June through August was more than 3 degrees above the 20th century average,...