Australian fires

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No, they're not. It's been on the font page of the NYTime several times in the past week. The Main Stream Media is covering it at least hourly. But half the country considers those sources fake news and think climate change is a hoax because A) Trump said it was, B) Conservative Media told them it was and C)

Good job answering my posts as if I'm denying that climate change has occurred overall. I didn't, and I never have. You're purposely taking my words out of context.

I was referring to whether or not the climate has changed severely enough in southern CA in order to cause a massive increase in fires. It hasn't. A slight increase in average temperature s not going to cause a tremendous difference in fire danger. Notice that this is a thread about fires, not climate change.

Referring to the coverage of the fires, it has been under-covered in the US media in general. Look at CNN. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not, but it's not a major story there either way. Many Americans are barely aware of the fires because of the lack of coverage here. Just because the NY Times is covering it doesn't mean that everyone else is.

And in which graduate school climatology class did you learn this on your way to earning a Ph.D. in that field of study?

Oh, wait! Your degree is in computer science, not even at the doctoral or Ph.D. level, and you haven’t even worked in that field for over a decade. But perhaps in your spare time since then you have self-studied your way into having a doctoral school-level knowledge of climatology and have published peer-reviewed scientific research on the matter under an alias that we’ve yet to learn about?

And perhaps you secretly know that what you say here is based on wishful ignorance just to troll us for kicks while your peer-reviewed research published under that alias actually shows what you publicly dismiss here as impossible as most likely true? Hell! You might even be one of the climate scientists whose work contributed to what is mentioned in this Yale University article from late 2018 that discusses how man-made climate change is increasing the both the risk and severity of wildfires in California!!!

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.o...nia-wildfires/

Moreover, scientific evidence clearly shows that climate change is exacerbating California’s wildfires in different ways:

Higher temperatures dry out vegetation and soil, creating more wildfire fuel.

Climate change is shortening the California rainy season, thus extending the fire season.

Climate change is also shifting the Santa Ana winds that fan particularly dangerous wildfires in Southern California.

The warming atmosphere is slowing the jet stream, leading to more California heat waves and high-pressure ridges in the Pacific. Those ridges deflect from the state some storms that would otherwise bring much-needed moisture to slow the spread of fires.

God forbid, Druff!!! Please tell us that you are not secretly one of those liberal elite university professors!!!

And quick!!! Show us a currect pic of your car with identifying info to prove you don’t actually also own a Prius!!!