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The American West burns as scientific experts warn of rising global temperatures.

Meanwhile, at least one Democratic governor has had it with climate change deniers.

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Nearly one hundred wildfires are burning millions of acres across the American west, destroying towns and prompting mass evacuations. Eerie images showed red and orange skies filled with ash from the San Francisco Bay to the outskirts of Portland and beyond »

In Colorado, the fires still smoldered under a fourteen-inch blanket of snow that fell suddenly in a storm the other night.

Compared to the same point in last year’s fire season, state officials said, California has endured a two thousand percent increase in acres burned. And there are still four months left in the fire season »

Oregon Governor Kate Brown said her state was facing what could be the largest loss of life and property due to fire in its history. The entire county of Clackamas outside of Portland, comprising over four hundred and twenty thousand people, was put on notice to evacuate »

The entire city of Medford, population 82,000, was under an evacuation order, along with prisons and nursing homes elsewhere in the state. Thousands of people lost power due to downed lines in Oregon; in California, 100,000+ are waiting to have their electricity service restored.

In Oregon, six of the largest firefighting helicopters were unavailable to aid in the all-hands effort because they had been sent to Afghanistan to help with the ongoing military occupation, according to @ThePortlandTrib.

Separately, the United Nations World Meterological Organization reported that global temperatures risk exceeding a limit set by the Paris climate change agreement in 2015 »

And some twelve thousand people in Europe’s largest refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos, were left homeless once again after a fire tore through their tents. Arson was suspected.