Johnny Carson famously joked that California's four seasons are Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought. Well, Fire season is here, and hardly just in California. Wildfires have already burned 2.5 million acres in the U.S. this year, including more than 1 million in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. And we're on the verge of not only an El Niño, which makes the world much hotter and drier, but of what is classified as a "super" El Niño — in fact, one that may be the strongest in recorded history.