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 …
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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Sure but that weather pattern combines with super dry conditions to cause fires and climate change is making conditions drier, so I think it is fair to say they are climate change related. And the number of high acreage fires in the last 20 years supports it.
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I agree that overall this is happening. My point is that *these specific fires* are not an example. Because: 1) we're still in the normal dry season 2) we've had multiple wind events that have completely dried out vegetation 3) the wind events are not climate-change related
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But I do appreciate this thread bc I never heard Santa Anas could decrease with climate change, though I also never thought they were going to or had increased in intensity bc of it. Also I really like the word “katabatic”
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