TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 12月8日 10時11分

That the future may be divined in fire is an ancient idea. Images of the #CampFire flames hold their own vision of what is to come, and it doesn’t take a pyromancer to read them. After all, however shocking the scene may be, the wave of #wildfires that has struck #California in recent years was also totally predictable. For decades, scientists have warned that climate change would lead to more frequent and severe extreme-weather events. And, while not every extreme-weather event can be linked to #climatechange, slowly but surely those incidents have become a reality, particularly in places like coasts, forests and floodplains, where humans have tested #nature’s limits. The link between climate change and wildfires is fairly straightforward. Warmer temperatures transform the fire season into a year-round phenomenon while dry weather kills off vegetation, creating fast-burning tinder. “It’s not really rocket science,” says University of Washington professor David Peterson, a forest expert. “If it gets warmer and drier, then we’re going to burn more area.” In this photograph, a burned car sits abandoned in Paradise, Calif. (pop. 26,682), in late November. Many residents of the town, which has few roads out, were trapped in gridlock as they attempted to escape when fire struck on Nov. 8. Read more about what California’s devastating wildfires signal about our future on TIME.com. Photograph by @philipmontgomery for TIME

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