every year we get reports that the US is on fire, I'm a bit too young to have been politically aware much before trump, but is this not normal? Reports of forest fires and extreme weather come out of america with such regularity and normalcy that honestly I'd just assumed it was a natural part of the year in that climate, like insects or annual floods. Everyone else carries that "sucks huh" attitude because it very much seems like the US carries that attitude, and everyone else presumed they knew what they were doing with their own climate.
To contrast, the Australian situation was clearly an issue because their government was making announcements about the disaster and wildlife experts were panicking about it on every news channel - but all sources I've seen have seemed to act as if these wildfires in america are just part of life and always have been. Are they bullshit; are these occurrences in the US actually new?
well fuck, that looks a little bit apocalyptic. But at least that drought and record temperature thing is just a fluke, and couldn't possibly be part of a larger trend or have a concrete cause 🙃🙃🙃
Don't know about other states, but in California, the record set in 1980 for acres burned in one year is now the average. The new maximums are nearly triple the old ones.
Wildfires are normal on the West Coast, but it's gotten much more severe, much more quickly than scientists predicted.
Climate Change is no longer an upcoming problem, it is causing catastrophic problems already. This is going to cripple California for the foreseeable future at current levels of warming, let alone impossible to reach goals like 1.5c or 2c.
every year we get reports that the US is on fire, I'm a bit too young to have been politically aware much before trump, but is this not normal? Reports of forest fires and extreme weather come out of america with such regularity and normalcy that honestly I'd just assumed it was a natural part of the year in that climate, like insects or annual floods. Everyone else carries that "sucks huh" attitude because it very much seems like the US carries that attitude, and everyone else presumed they knew what they were doing with their own climate.
To contrast, the Australian situation was clearly an issue because their government was making announcements about the disaster and wildlife experts were panicking about it on every news channel - but all sources I've seen have seemed to act as if these wildfires in america are just part of life and always have been. Are they bullshit; are these occurrences in the US actually new?
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well fuck, that looks a little bit apocalyptic. But at least that drought and record temperature thing is just a fluke, and couldn't possibly be part of a larger trend or have a concrete cause 🙃🙃🙃
Don't know about other states, but in California, the record set in 1980 for acres burned in one year is now the average. The new maximums are nearly triple the old ones.
Wildfires are normal on the West Coast, but it's gotten much more severe, much more quickly than scientists predicted.
Climate Change is no longer an upcoming problem, it is causing catastrophic problems already. This is going to cripple California for the foreseeable future at current levels of warming, let alone impossible to reach goals like 1.5c or 2c.
Its more the increased frequency/severity that is more worrisome.