I wasn’t aware that global warming had increased to the point where it was causing combustion. I’ll have to see what Al Gore has to say.
Well, they mean that the extreme winds were due to global warming.
Not to minimize the severity, but I just saw CNN an hour ago with the reporter standing there in a DEAD CALM, with smoke rising vertically from fires on a hillside in the background. Just then the crawl goes by mentioning how the fires are being whipped up by the Santa Ana winds.