CBS just ran a segment claiming that Climate Change is making the California wildfires a lot worse:
“Climate change has certainly made it a lot worse”: @WeatherProf explains how California's wildfire seasons have gotten more intense recent decades https://t.co/ZCGQVfvRpR pic.twitter.com/H4ISklLx01
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 30, 2019
What Jeff Berardelli, this “weather professor”, is arguing is that temperatures have gone up about 2 degrees fahrenheit over the last two decades and that’s created a “moisture deficit” in the atmosphere. He says that typically when the temperature goes up it increases moisture in the atmosphere, but he claims the moisture “is not catching up fast enough”, ergo “moisture deficit”.
So how long does it take to create moisture in the atmosphere? 50 years? 100 years? Or is California just going through another dry spell?
Berardelli jumped on Twitter and said this about his commentary: “A direct line from a warmer climate to wildfires in CA. Get used to the term “moisture deficit”. The latest peer reviewed research shows this is a big factor.”
Peer reviewed research? The Climate Change advocate’s best friend. Because if a bunch of peers agree, it must be true!
Or maybe, just maybe this has more to do with neglected forestry policies and vegetation that needs to be cleared away from power lines than anything else. California’s own independent state oversight said just last year that “California’s forests are reaching a breaking point”. I think they just broke.
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