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>> Among many other possible explanations. > Like what? Now you are just being deliberately obtuse. You already responed to my comment where I provide an alte

>> Among many other possible explanations. > Like what? Now you are just being deliberately obtuse. You already responed to my comment where I provide an alternative explanation of changes in fire policy, and you agknowledge that "the situation with respect to fire is very complicated". > I would like nothing better than for the author to be right, and for climate change to not be causing any serious problems. The author never made such a claim, going so far as to state: "I believe climate change is real and that human emissions of greenhouse gases risk justifying action, including a carbon tax."

lisper 10y ago
> Now you are just being deliberately obtuse. Sorry, I'm juggling a lot of threads here. > The author never made such a claim The author claimed that there is "scant evidence" that climate change is causing extreme weather events, including drought. Being a resident of California, which is in the middle of its worst drought in history, that claim seems improbable to me. (Note carefully: the claim that I find highly improbable is not that climate change is not causing extreme weather events, but that there is "scant evidence" that climate change is causing extreme weather events.) I first tried looking up actual drought data, but it's all hiding behind high-bandwidth visualizations which I cannot currently access. So I went with what I could find. [UPDATE:] Found this: http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/papers/Dai-drought_WIRES2010.pdf http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/papers/Dai-drought_WIRES201... So I think it is fair to say that the evidence that climate change is causing increased severity of drought may be debatable, but it is not scant.