European fire becomes a political emergency before it becomes a climate one

France's president convened an emergency cabinet meeting Monday over the Gironde fire; Spain's prime minister travelled to fire-hit areas of Valencia. Evacuations across both countries passed 300,000, one of the largest in French history, with at least one death. *The available response to a fire is a head of state arriving. There is an organ for the emergency and no organ for its meaning, so the fire is filed under governance — a story about how well two leaders are handling it, which is the on ...