Searching for climate change fingerprints as wildfires only get worse

California wildfires
Firefighters assess the damage to a neighborhood in the aftermath of a wildfire on Sunday, July 29, 2018, in Keswick, Calif.
Marcio Jose Sanchez | AP

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The science is clear: A hotter climate favors larger wildfires.

California is now learning that the hard way.

Noah Diffenbaugh, an earth systems science professor at Stanford University, works to find climate change fingerprints in individual extreme weather events.

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