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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/wildfire-flickr-justinm.jpg640426The science is clear. Human-caused climate change is creating conditions where wildfires in many parts of the US are more likely to start, bigger, and harder to put out. But, sadly, I'm veritably bowled over when a mainstream media outlet mentions climate change in their reporting on the wildfires currently devastating the West. (Just ask my husband how I've been yelling at the radio lately.) Of course, it's refreshing when a paper like the Washington Post makes the wildfire-climate connections...