An irony of the California wildfires: "Global warming has all kinds of negative effects, but one of them is NOT the strong easterly flow that drives the big wildfires we have seen in recent years," because models predict the effect to weaken with warming https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/extreme-winds-in-california-and-soon-in.html …
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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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Denialist is a response to the outrageous claims of politicians on the effects of global warming. Disregard scientific predictions. How many predictions from politicians have come true? How many politicians have tried to set up profit schemes from it? It's both sides, dude.
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Just look, you're blaming the doubling down of ridiculous claims on the denialist side. You have obvious bias, my friend.
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This is wrong. If you drive around Russia, you are affected by a dramatic increase in potholes over the last 20 years. If your suspension gives out, whether or not it happened by actually driving into a pothole or not is irrelevant.
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Extreme or frequent events are part of the whole trend. A non-Climate-Change (™) event is surrounded by other events that may be attributable. In the same way one cannot say definitively a particular event is caused by climate change, one cannot say an event is not.
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