At a public meeting not far from the California town of Redding last year, the US congressman Doug LaMalfa said that he “didn’t buy” human-made climate change. “I think there’s a lot of bad science behind what people are calling global warming,” he said on another occasion. …the outskirts of Redding have been ravaged by the Carr wildfire, and scientists have directly connected the blaze, which has claimed six lives and dozens of properties, to climate change. Yet LaMalfa sounds unswayed. …Can climate-driven natural disasters shift attitudes about climate change? In Redding, the weeks to come may provide a somber test case. …longtime resident, Ray Cutchen, dismissed any contribution of climate change to the fire. “I think it’s bull,” he said. “It’s just fire season. It’s hot. There’s more people living out further and further in the woods.”