PS. The data for this figure comes from @NOAA's Climate at a Glance data explorer, e.g. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/statewide/time-series/4/tavg/6/10/1895-2018?base_prd=true&firstbaseyear=1950&lastbaseyear=1980 …
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I've created an updated version of this figure to better show the relationship between hot & dry weather in California and the largest and most destructive wildfires.https://twitter.com/RARohde/status/1061932205327429632 …
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Nice plot. Can you tell me the plotting tool you use to make it?
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This plot, like most of what I present, was done in
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Did you make this chart? Thanks.
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Yes. A link to the NOAA data source is in a prior comment.
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Can't imagine anyone denies California is currently at risk for wildfire; the issue is whether people have an incorrect view of what constitutes "normal" conditions. Despite the tragedy of human losses, California's recent fires were small compared to those I've experienced.pic.twitter.com/0E8MzIk7cM
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Prior to human efforts at fire suppression and aggressive land use management policies, natural burns likely were larger in many places. Though with or without fire management policies, if the climate gets hotter and drier, then the fires that do occur will become more extreme.
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That's undoubtedly true, but climate has likely been hotter & drier in the past, too. Don't know if current fires are natural or anthrpopogenic, but building in fire prone ecosystems is as risky as building on floodplains. Fire prevention and effective suppression are crucial.
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California's normal ecology requires wildfires in tthe presence and absence of Humans. The weather this year is not the hottest or driest experienced by California.
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Apparently you’re not reading the chart. This year IS one of the warmest and IS one of the driest.. not certain of your point other than denial of the fact our weather IS changing as HUMANS put more CO2 into the atmosphere.
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1. the chart is using falsified air temperatures systematically adjusted upwards & automated weather stations with erroneously high readings. 2. CA just experienced one of the wettest years on record. 3. Records too short to reflect worse conditions before recordkeeping began.
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Fact: One of the wettest periods caused by atmospheric river events...A new NASA-led study shows that climate change is likely to intensify extreme weather events known as atmospheric rivers across most of the globe by the end of this centuryhttps://climate.nasa.gov/news/2740/climate-change-may-lead-to-bigger-atmospheric-rivers/ …
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Your source is NASA GISS, which is a group of political activists posing as climate scientists in an office located over a delicatessen in New York City. Their departure from norms of science was subject of written protests by the rest of NASA, including directors & astronauts.
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The work cited above is from scientists at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is not related to NASA GISS. Not that there is anything wrong with NASA GISS, either.
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Let me tell you about JPL. Had a JPL PhD complain to us the PC sold to him was faulty, because 5.25 floppy disk didn't work in the drive. Said he removed the floppy disk from the envelope as instructed, & it was too floppy to work in the disk drive....
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Reminds me of fig 2 from Diffenbaugh,
@Weather_West, and@danielletouma’s 2015 PNAS paper:pic.twitter.com/N6AF0kELEe
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So I JUST wonder When the BIG CORPORATIONS/BANKS/ONE PERCENT will get that they too are HUMAN and WILL ALSO DIE in any one of these CLIMATE CATASTROPHES??Just asking..
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A lot of us scientists wonder that too. More damage needs to happen, apparently, before voters are convinced, and political forces in denial start conceding policy space. It's like gun control. What's it going to take? Private sector insurance policy changes?
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