A problem with climate science becoming so politicized (mostly by denialist efforts on the right) is that any severe weather event is now conscripted as evidence of the catastropic impacts of climate change, whether or not the science supports it
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This has been a problem with Atlantic hurricanes, and we're now seeing a California wildfire version. Some people finesse it by saying "climate change will cause more extreme weather events like this one" which is not super honest in spirit but at least correct
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But for others, it's a tribal political question now. Either all harmful weather patterns are due to anthropogenic climate change, or you are a climate denialist. So Cliff Mass, who is an expert in these specific wind patterns, finds himself attacked as anti-science
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We really need to find a way to depoliticize the climate issue quickly, and focus the political battle to where it should be, on how to respond to climate change that everyone universally accepts as real. But things are going in the opposite direction right now.
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A corollary of "believe the science" is that you have to believe it even when it's politically inconvenient
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