Climate Scientists Call Wildfires and Smoke the "New Abnormal"

Source: Google NewsAs Earth's climate warms, more people fall within the deadly reach of wildfire smoke. Already, wildfires are consuming three times more of the United States and Canada each year than in the 1980s, and studies predict fire and smoke to worsen. "Is this a new normal? No, it's a new abnormal," says climate scientist Michael Mann. "If we continue to warm the planet, we don't settle into some new state. It's an ever-moving baseline of worse and...