Remember: “Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!”

So said Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Here is a map of current fires:

Source: NOAA.

July was the hottest on record (w/o reference to statistical significance).

Figure 1: May-June global surface temperature anomalies. Source: NOAA.

From NY Times:

Global warming caused by human emissions has most likely intensified the drought in California by 15 to 20 percent, scientists said on Thursday, warning that future dry spells in the state are almost certain to be worse than this one as the world continues to heat up.

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“This would be a drought no matter what,” said A. Park Williams, a climate scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and the lead author of a paper published by the journal Geophysical Research Letters. “It would be a fairly bad drought no matter what. But it’s definitely made worse by global warming.”