Perfect example of an otherwise excellent story (terrible infrastructure!) on a false climate change hook (the California fires are not a result of global warming)https://twitter.com/SteveVockrodt/status/1189367322370293761 …
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The pattern in California specifically is not just that greedy corporations delay maintenance for filthy lucre, but that people really want to build stuff where there is a high potential for fire, mudslides, or where there's no water and you have to steal it from somewhere else
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It's pretty hard politically to force people not to build where there's going to be a devastating fire or earthquake every 80 years. There's a similar political pathology with floodplains in the Mississippi basin. Rare disasters and democracy don't work well together
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@Pinboard okay but the nights never cooling down definitely is -
100% on board with that
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Is it not the case that hot, dry conditions over the summer, which are at least exacerbated by climate change, laid the groundwork? It's not like the vegetation was totally fine and then all of a sudden, wind dried it out and started fires.
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No, even with wet vegetation the winds would have dried it to kindling, both in previous wind events and in this one. See https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/extreme-winds-in-california-and-soon-in.html … (Mass is an expert on Diabo winds).
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It looks like there is one paper saying the Santa Ana winds may be less frequent, but nothing about Northern California winds. Is someone else making this prediction?
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Projected to be and with some stated level of uncertainty. Not currently is. But temperatures are up, aridity is up and fires are getting bigger. Climate scientists in the state attribute this to climate change. From what I read anyway- where is your info from?
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Cliff Mass, who studies these katabatic wind-related fires in particular. I don't question climate scientists on the overall larger scale and longer fire season, but these particular fires clearly are caused by a weather pattern that modeling shows is not climate change related
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