Extreme Wildfires Have Doubled in Frequency and Intensity in the Past 20 Years

These findings align with other evidence that wildfires are getting worse—such as the total area burned each year ratcheting up.

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Why? Did something change with the climate?
- No no no, you see, God is just angry at the queers.
  
  /s
We are likely in the exponential portion of a sigmoid curve.
- There was another post I saw today that we have now gone 12 months straight hitting the 1.5C above mean threshold, so, we failed.
  
  I've been hooting and hollering that rivers in Alaska are running orange because the permafrost is thawing, and everyone IRL just acts like I am a madman.
  
  Fucking oh well I guess.