02-12-2016 12:00 via theguardian.com

Fires and drought cook Tennessee - a state represented by climate deniers | John Abraham

Climate change intensified the extreme weather in Tennessee, but its legislators deny the science
With my new hope that deniers of climate change will take ownership of the consequences, I am sad to report that this week, terrible wildfires have swept through Tennessee, a southeastern state in the USA. This state is beset by a tremendous drought, as seen by a recent US Drought Monitor map. There currently are severe, extreme, and exceptional drought conditions covering a wide swath of southern s
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