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Severe wildfire seasons like the one that has devastated California this fall may occur more frequently because of climate change, scientists say.

“This is looking like the type of year that might occur more often in the future,” said A. Park Williams, a climate scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y.