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As Los Angeles fires rage, states battle over effort to make oil and gas industry accountable for climate change harms. (www.thenewlede.org)
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As fires rage through southern California, the costs of extreme weather events linked to climate change are forecast to keep climbing โ€“ adding fuel to growing efforts by some US states to make the oil and gas industry liable for helping foot the bill despite looming legal challenges.

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[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

We figured this out from the Yellowstone National Park fires of '88.

I was in forestry class a couple of years later and the professor lectured on it. He had been there, seen the dead wood stacked 10'-15' high. Can you fucking imagine?!

We spent decades and decades putting out every little fire and went surprised Pikachu when 800,000 acres exploded in a firestorm of biblical proportion. Have we learned nothing in 40-years?!

Given the Santa Anna winds funneling fire down the LA valleys and Hurricane Helene funneling the rain down the mountains to flood North Carolina, I'll stand pat, just a bit upland in Florida.