Fire wiping out homes and hiking trails in the Angeles National Forest--very close to LA (I stayed there on my last trip)--and threatening the Mt. Wilson Observatory and a lot of communications towers. Another fire near Yosemite, and in Pasadena the evacuation of the Jet Propulsion Lab meant that the rovers stopped in their tracks--on Mars. There are still seven major fires in all. Says Salon's LA-based TV writer:"Los Angeles is a smoky, apocalyptic hellhole today." Bruce Sterling posts some eerie time-lapse film, and a southern CA native posts a concise explanation for why these fires are so unusual--and so related to the Climate Crisis drought. LA expects fires with the Santa Ana winds in October. There are no winds yet, but the parched forests are burning anyway. The impact will be felt not only in LA--and not only on Mars. See American Dash for more on that. Update: Joseph Romm quantifies the influence of global heating on the CA fire season.
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