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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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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