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LETTER: California smoke and air quality

What if all of the states being affected by smoke got together and sued California for violating their air quality standards because the Golden State failed to manage its forests, allowing fires to grow out of control? It seems odd to me that climate change is much worse in California than all of the other Western states.

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LETTER: Global warming and timelines

To give perspective, the California Sierra was largely free of permanent snow 700 years ago, but then developed the glaciers that are retreating today.