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Los Angeles burns: What you need to know | This is terrible. This is climate change.
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Site popped a fucking modal window in my face when I tried to read the article so I didn't read it all.
But the fires were caused by unusually long draught and poor funding of public services (this funding was inhibited by republicans). Yes, climate change is important, yes it's getting worse, yes it contributed to these fires, but to use these fires as a debate point in the realm of climate change is cheap and stupid. Just because they're adjacent to each other doesn't mean they're the same thing. Authors need to be better than that. We're not stupid and we're not going to read their literature if they continue to treat us like we are.
Last year and the year before there were extreme fires all over North America. How many do we have to see before it becomes reasonable to refer to them in a debate about climate change? The way a general trend manifests is in particular events. There isn't really a way to draw attention to it except by referring to those particular events.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6210172/