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https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/weather/western-wildfires-climate-change-future/index.html
How bad it gets depends on what we as humans do to reduce heat-trapping gas emissions, said Michael Mann, the director of Penn State University's Earth System Science Center.
"By some measure, it's clear that 'dangerous climate change' has already arrived," Mann said in response to emailed questions from CNN. "It's a matter of how bad we're willing to let it get."
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When you observe the damage to the Amazon Rainforest and what is happening now in all the western U.S. states in the form of fires you can see that we have slipped over into Global Climate change in high gear now, especially if you live in the western states.
What I see as someone who has mostly lived all over California since 1952 since I was 4 is that California, especially southern California is slowly being reclaimed by the desert.
In other words: "What happens if you burn ALL the forests down?" The answer might be that it turns into a desert more permanently and causes less rain to fall in various parts of California.
I'm not sure exactly what this means for Western Oregon or Western Washington. But, it is likely true that Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington might be turning also into more of a desert too as the forests all burn down.
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