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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Specifically, the large-scale wind pattern that causes the devastating fires we see right now, and that already dried out vegetation in the state a few weeks ago, is projected to be weaker, not stronger, with global warming
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Replying to @Pinboard
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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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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