None of the material is responsive to structures. They're already dry. Furthermore, it discounts the educated opinions of experts in the field of burning buildings. Climate change does not make buildings more burnable. Slashing the funding for fire departments does reduce the ability of fire departments to fight fires. The Los Angeles government choosing to completely drain the Pacific Palisades reservoir that fed the fire hydrants in the months before the fire started basically guaranteed the fire could not be stopped.
Los Angeles' water chief reportedly knew about an empty reservoir and broken fire hydrants months before the deadly wildfires now spreading across the city.
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This was a failure attributable entirely to government. Placing blame for this tragedy on climate change instead of the officials who made the decisions to kneecap the area's ability to fight fires is roughly on the same level as placing blame on Jewish space lasers. So many losing so much isn't Jews and it isn't Exxon. Just stop.
While you’re focused on your usual diversionary BS, others may find this of interest. I was not familiar with the term hydroclimate whiplash, but this is quite interesting.
Getting to the fundamental causes is always enlightening. But you wouldn’t know anything about fundamental causes. You avoid or misidentify them.
You can remain in your politicization mind set, I’m sure failure in preparation occurred, as it does in nearly every disaster. So, you just keep on with your usual huffing and puffing.
You see, the trouble with you and Trump is you put your head in the sand where the very existence of climate change is concerned. Meaning, there will be more events like this, and Trump will be remembered as one of the American leaders who essentially said “F*** it. F*** the fundamental causes. Call it a hoax. Just blame our enemies for failing”. That’s brilliant. Just a brilliant response to the underlying problems.
Your criticism of Ca. governor, etc. is duly noted. And toward the end of this piece, needed improvements in that area are in fact urged.
You should have just spoke your mind in the first place, rather than asking me how fast the wood burns, or whatever. Just be upfront for once. I’m not here for you to set up, lol..
Maybe this has something to do with what happened in LA this past week:
“The devastating wildfires that have ravaged Southern California erupted following a stark shift from wet weather to extremely dry weather — a phenomenon scientists describe as hydroclimate whiplash.
New research shows these abrupt wet-to-dry and dry-to-wet swings, which can worsen wildfires, flooding and other hazards, are growing more frequent and intense because of human-caused climate change.
“We’re in a whiplash event now, wet-to-dry, in Southern California,” said Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist who led the research. “The evidence shows that hydroclimate whiplash has already increased due to global warming, and further warming will bring about even larger increases.”
The extreme weather shift over the last two years in Southern California is one of many such dramatic swings that scientists have documented worldwide in recent years….
…..”This whiplash sequence in California has increased fire risk twofold: first, by greatly increasing the growth of flammable grass and brush in the months leading up to fire season, and then by drying it out to exceptionally high levels,” Swain said.
….As fossil fuel burning and rising levels of greenhouse gases push temperatures higher, Swain and other scientists project that extreme weather swings will continue to become more frequent and volatile, with precipitation increasingly concentrated in shorter, intense bursts, interspersed with more severe dry spells.
The scientist also cited another recent example of whiplash in California. Immediately after the severe 2020-22 drought, the state was hit by a series of major atmospheric river storms in 2023 that brought heavy rains and
historic amounts of snow, leading to
flooding and landslides.
Among other examples, the scientists pointed to torrential rains and
flooding in East Africa in 2023, which followed a long drought that destroyed crops and displaced people.
“Increasing hydroclimate whiplash may turn out to be one of the more universal global changes on a warming Earth,” Swain said.