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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Fair enough; I didn’t mean to suggest it was always or necessarily the case, just that it only needs 1 of the contributing factors to be a result of climate change. (From my limited antipodean reading the greatest threat is PG&E, aka late stage capitalism, root cause of it all)
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That's not accurate either. PG&E has been forced to defer maintenance by CPUC, and even a perfectly maintained power grid would have to be de-energized given the current weather situation.
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I mean even if he’s right, Let Malibu Burn
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In this case the danger is from the sequence of wind events, which dried the vegetation out like a hair dryer. I love this example and clutch it to my chest because it illustrates a potential danger of warming cimate while having no causal relationship with it
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