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By Aaron Rutkoff

September 14, 2020 at 11:06 PM UTC

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This article is part of the September 14, 2020 issue of Green.

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These weeks of alien orange skies over America’s West Coast weren’t on the schedule. Researchers working on a California Climate Assessment released just two years ago projected that burning on this scale wouldn’t arrive for three more decades.