We’ll begin by following the stories of the two most destructive wildfire seasons the state has ever seen, before diving into the story of the Camp Fire, and the events that precipitated it. [...] In its Fifth Assessment Report, the IPCC contended that staving off the worst impacts of climate change would require — at minimum —holding the increase in global average temperature to 2ºC over the course of the century.10 A year later, all 195 UN member and observer nations signed the Paris Agreement, which set the 2ºC target as its primarily goal.11 As part of the Paris process, the United Stat. [...] The DDPP study found that meeting the 1.5ºC target would require, on average, a tripling of the fraction of final energy use in the United States that goes to electricity usage — from an expected 20% in 2020, to nearly 60% by 2050.16 That’s in addition to the significant expansions of transmission and distribution capacity needed to support the expansion in generation — not to mention a paradigm-s. [...] His focus — on ensuring that the impacts of carbon emissions don’t cause irreparable, long-term damage to the Earth’s climate and to all of us who depend on its stability — marked the beginning of a four-year push for climate and clean energy policy that included the first- ever domestic regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from the electric sector and a diplomatic effort to secure adoption of t. [...] Having examined the broad spectrum of risks and impacts the electric system faces, we will then consider the value of focusing on the most extreme in our exploration of resilient decarbonization — particularly hurricanes and wildfires, which together have accounted for a plurality of the damages caused by extreme weather and climate disasters in the U.
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