Early this week, Oregon governor Kate Brown went on national television to call the Pacific Coast fires a âbellwether for climate change.â As UC Berkeley professor of sustainable development Maximilian Auffhammer writes, âItâs the climate change, stupid.âThis is one of four responses to the Pacific Coast fires. Brown and Auffhammer are warmers, people who believe the earthâs climate is changing and the fires must be due to that change.