Hotter climate means a never-ending fire season for California National Guard

California has set up a permanent task force of National Guard members to do what used to be occasional work fighting and preventing wildfires.

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Screenshot of some of the fires currently burning on the US west coast...
- EOSDIS Satellite view of the west coast:
  
  My first photo shows all fires, including new within the last 24hrs that are still <1 acre.
  
  This is everything over 100 acres.
S01e01 of “extrapolations” feels very close now.
- Such a great show...the later episodes are terrifying
Wrong. Eventually everything flammable will burn away and they wont have anything to worry about.
- It doesn't work that way. You let unmanaged burns happen and it converts forest to chaparral and chaparral to grasslands. The resulting plant communities grow a lot when it rains, and then burn when they dry out
  
  I was just goofing.

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