Warming Climate Created ‘Perfect Storm’ for Catastrophic Fires, NASA Researcher Says / According to NASA’s Gavin Schmidt, global warming so far is about halfway to the Pliocene 3 million years ago when it was about 3ºC warmer, and sea level was something like 80 feet higher than today

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/warming-climate-created-perfect-storm-for-catastrophic-fires-nasa-researcher-says

by Keith_McNeill65

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  1. So an organization created and funded with billions of tax payer money to go to space that has to beg Russia and now SpaceX to get it to space because it can’t complete the mission it was created to accomplish can be trusted 100 percent to tell me what temps are going to be in the future? Got it.

  2. >So fires need a number of ingredients. So you need to have fuel that’s going to burn. You need to have what’s called fire weather. That’s the dry air and the strong winds that are most conducive to allowing wildfires to spread.

    >And, of course, you need an ignition source. And the climate aspect of this is very much in the both in the fuel load and in the fire weather aspect. So, in Southern California, we used to think of the late fall as being fire season. Well, now fire season stretches out all year because the temperatures and the evaporative draw, the drying out of the land surface, has been increasing as temperatures have increased.

    >And so the other part of that is the fuel load. One of the things that we have been seeing in California is this kind of whiplash between extreme wet events, like multiple atmospheric rivers at the beginning of last year, and then extreme dry events. So it hasn’t really rained in the Los Angeles area for months now.

    >And that has led to both a spur of growth when there was water, and then all of that growth has dried out providing like a — unfortunately, a perfect storm for fires this season. And now in the wintertime, when you get these strong Santa Ana winds coming off the cold mountains into the warm basin, those have provided that extra component of fire weather, and we’re seeing the results.

  4. Why do people worry about earth in 10k years? Are you gonna be sitting in heaven watching how is the world doing

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