California, Climate Change: ‘Climate change is extending the dry season, which stores up fuel for fires. In California, a chronic “mega-drought” – in which dry years become more common and wet ones scarcer–is making matters even worse. One paper, citing tree-ring data, concluded that the drought, which started around 2000 is the second worst in the past 1,200 years. It has been linked to climate change,’ (‘Learning to live with it,’ The Economist 12 September 2020, p.67).