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Los Angeles burns: What you need to know | This is terrible. This is climate change.
(www.theclimatebrink.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
OK. The article says:
We all seem to agree about all of this. Climate change is a significant contributing factor, and so are the quantity of fuel available and forest management practices. But then ~~you argued~~ CORRECTION: I attributed this comment to the wrong person:
~~This seems to be the point on which we disagree. So I have checked the article and checked your claims and I still don't understand, when climate change is a significant cause of these fires, why you think it is "cheap and stupid" to discuss how climate change contributes to them. The article itself admits that there are other causes. Why do you think we should talk about those but not climate change? Why is one contributing factor "cheap and stupid" to discuss but not the others?~~ CORRECTION: I was arguing with the wrong person.
No, I didn't say that. Check who you're quoting.
Sorry about that, I misread the thread.