Re:Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia
by mrfusion on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:31AM
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I’m still confused. Nothing else can explain a period of dryness? I feel like it’s convenient to blame global warming without considering other ideas.
Please note, I say this as a huge climate change activist. But this feels similar to blaming hurricanes on climate change to me.
Re:Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia
by _ph_ on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:18AM
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It is rarely possible to rule out that "something else" is the cause of a phenomenum. But the connection between rising temperatures and an exceptional dryness is quite obvious. So absent a very strong different explanation for the current dryness, climate change sounds like an important contributor if not the single cause.
Re:Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia
by polotics on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:51AM
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Well hurricanes are also made stronger by the fact that CO2 traps more heat in lower layers and thus makes the upper atmosphere colder, leading to a higher differential with lower layers. So there you go, please inform your activism accordingly.
Yes, if you isolate this fire season then the fires themselves will look as no evidence of climate change. But the fact the everything is as dry as fuck when its not supposed to be dry as fuck...
In northern Queensland we have rain forests. The fringes of those rain forests are burning, because they're dry as fuck.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-02/extent-of-fire-damage...
Can you please open your mind?