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I'm a Climate Scientist -- I Fled Los Angeles Two Years Ago.
Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus writes a guest column for the New York Times about the Altadena home he raised his children in burning. He left what he once considered paradise in 2022 because feared fire. But even he didn't see this coming.
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From the cited OpEd ...
... One lesson climate change teaches us again and again is that bad things can happen ahead of schedule. Model predictions for climate impacts have tended to be optimistically biased. But now, unfortunately, the heating is accelerating, outpacing scientists' expectations. ...
But now, unfortunately, the heating is accelerating, outpacing scientists' expectations. ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-10 04:32 PM | Reply
I'd like to see a map of this country (and the whole world actually) of where reputable climate scientists live.
just a small pin in their zip code in this country.
How many live along the Atlantic coast south of NC, much of the gulf coast, and everywhere on the west coast. Cities like Phoenix as well.....
#2 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-10 04:37 PM | Reply
@#2 ... I'd like to see a map of this country (and the whole world actually) of where reputable climate scientists live. ...
Ditto for climate change deniers.
But I have to ask, why?
#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-10 06:15 PM | Reply
So did hundreds of thousands of other people.
#4 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-01-10 06:21 PM | Reply
I'm guessing he's wondering if climate scientists are living in the areas they argue will be affected more severely by climate change.
It's not a very good question. For example, volcanologists warn us about the dangers and risk to life from volcanoes, yet they spend time on volcanoes.
Sometimes you want to be near the action, even if it's risky.
#5 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-01-10 06:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
What's going to happen when Yellowstone pops like an atomic pimple?
(Resident Alien plot based on the reality)
I know! It can be Biden's Fault(tm).
#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-10 06:25 PM | Reply
It's Biden's fault until october.
-lefthandlingturds
#7 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-10 06:26 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
@#6 ... What's going to happen when Yellowstone pops like an atomic pimple? ...
Will Yellowstone Erupt Soon? Scientists Are Using New Techniques to Find Out www.smithsonianmag.com
... Each year, Yellowstone National Park attracts millions of visitors who are eager to see its explosive geysers, steaming hot springs and burbling mud pots. These famous natural landmarks result from the park's unique geology: It sits atop an active supervolcano, which has produced three large, explosive eruptions in the last 2.1 million years. The most recent eruption at Yellowstone took place roughly 70,000 years ago, when thick lava burbled up to the surface and flowed across the landscape. The last major explosion occurred around 631,000 years ago, creating a massive crater known as the Yellowstone Caldera. Many curious onlookers have wondered whether -- and when -- Yellowstone might next erupt. Now, scientists are using new techniques to help answer these questions. A new analysis published last week in the journal Nature suggests Yellowstone is unlikely to experience another big eruption -- at least, not anytime soon --- because the magma lurking beneath its surface is split across a web of distinct chambers. Due to the large total amount of magma present, Yellowstone will remain volcanically active. But "nowhere in Yellowstone do we have regions that are capable of eruption," says study lead author Ninfa Bennington, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, to the Washington Post's Sarah Raza. "It has a lot of magma, but the magma is not connected enough." ...
The most recent eruption at Yellowstone took place roughly 70,000 years ago, when thick lava burbled up to the surface and flowed across the landscape. The last major explosion occurred around 631,000 years ago, creating a massive crater known as the Yellowstone Caldera.
Many curious onlookers have wondered whether -- and when -- Yellowstone might next erupt. Now, scientists are using new techniques to help answer these questions.
A new analysis published last week in the journal Nature suggests Yellowstone is unlikely to experience another big eruption -- at least, not anytime soon --- because the magma lurking beneath its surface is split across a web of distinct chambers.
Due to the large total amount of magma present, Yellowstone will remain volcanically active. But "nowhere in Yellowstone do we have regions that are capable of eruption," says study lead author Ninfa Bennington, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, to the Washington Post's Sarah Raza. "It has a lot of magma, but the magma is not connected enough." ...
#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-10 08:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#2 | Posted by eberly
Ahh the old "if you own property near a likely climate disaster then you don't beleive in climate change which proves I shouldn't either" argument.
This message has been brought to you by exxon and russia. 2 entities which would never lie.
#9 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-10 08:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
"The message I have for climate deniers is this: you are endangering humankind. It is time for climate deniers to face reality, because the body of evidence is overwhelming and the world's leading scientists agree. Wishing that climate change will go away by clinging to a tiny minority view is not a policy, it is a fantasy. Problems do not go away by pretending they do not exist."
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
#10 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-01-10 09:50 PM | Reply
@#9 ... Ahh the old "if you own property near a likely climate disaster then you don't beleive in climate change which proves I shouldn't either" argument. ...
A friend of mine moved to the San Francisco area of California.
I asked him about earthquakes and his comment was, ~if they happen, they happen.~
So far, he's been OK.
#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-10 09:55 PM | Reply
"fled California"
That's cute. Climate change will affect everyone and everything. Thinking you can "flee" is not very scientific.
#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-10 11:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Earthquakes didn't worry mean near as much as fire does now. Earthquakes were every few decades maybe. Thanks to climate change fires are now bad every year.
The same lowlifes who spent decades calling climate change a hoax are now whining that liberals' high taxes should have been spent on some sort of magical force that can resist a citywide blowtorch from hell.
#13 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-10 11:29 PM | Reply
-Thinking you can "flee" is not very scientific.
You Ignorant skidmark ... ... .he's fleeing an area where the effects of global warming are more vulnerable
#14 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-10 11:32 PM | Reply
"citywide blowtorch from hell."
Yes. Good description
#15 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-10 11:35 PM | Reply
Trump's ignorance of climate issues
youtube.com
#16 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-11 12:58 AM | Reply
Biden had four years to deal with the volcano problem and did nothing. Nothing!
#17 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-01-11 04:13 AM | Reply | Funny: 2
lol 17
#18 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-11 03:31 PM | Reply
fled California... oh you braaaaaaaave brave scientist... like there is actually somewhere to go that isn't affected.
#19 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-01-11 06:11 PM | Reply
Researchers usually live near research facilities and not where they chose to live.
No doubt you think any climate scientist living in CA is a liar.
#20 | Posted by Tor at 2025-01-11 07:05 PM | Reply
The problem with making agenda points with things like this is they are multi-variant problems. Of course climate change is a factor in these fires, but California wild fires are nothing new and the Santa Ana winds are nothing new. The policies affecting how the forests are maintained are new, and they definitely didn't account for climate change. The policies around water management haven't kept pace with accounting for climate change.
The only point here is that climate change itself played a small part in this fire, but it played a part. Other factors did thought too and and to a bigger degree, and where much more manageable but were mismanaged.
Using climate change as a focus is a useful shield in ignoring the mismanagement that played a much larger role.
#21 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-01-12 05:23 PM | Reply
#21 | Posted by kwrx25
Fixed your typos:
Using liberal mismanagement as a focus is a useful shield in ignoring the climate change that played a much larger role. Same climate change that your party has insisted on ignoring since it was first discovered. You created this problem, now you have to blame it on the other party. Just like the iraq war.
#22 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-13 01:06 PM | Reply
Using liberal mismanagement as a focus is a useful shield in ignoring the climate change that played a much larger role
No it didn't prove it. Using science, not your usual hand waving but prove the fires caused by "much larger roll". (whatever the ---- that means).
Even if CC caused at some large level, Government should still mitigate conditions which clearly were not done, ie mismanaged.
This is just a hail mary deflection.
#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-13 02:09 PM | Reply
#23 | Posted by oneironaut
Mitigating conditions is what liberals have been trying to do for decades while your party of oil puppets called climate change a hoax.
#24 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-13 02:12 PM | Reply
but California wild fires are nothing new and the Santa Ana winds are nothing new.
Fact check true, in fact the nations largest wildfire was in 1871 daily.jstor.org
Can you imagine the Climate Change that caused that one?
85-90% of wildfires are started by people, usually homeless or mentally unstable people. Blaming Climate Change is what charlatans do.
#25 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-13 02:13 PM | Reply
#25 | Posted by oneironaut
So you're too retarded to know the difference between a homeless man tossing his crack pipe onto a fresh green lawn versus a homeless man tossing his crack pipe onto a stack of dried out hay due to record breaking temperatures and drought?
#26 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-13 03:01 PM | Reply
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