Quote Originally Posted by Jayjami View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Any time we have any form of unusual weather, the left blames it on "climate change" and swears it's from manmade cause.

I brought up the fires in LA before. I had an argument today with some leftist on Twitter about this, who doesn't even live in the US.

They have fewer than 150 years of data for rain totals in Los Angeles. That's very little. What we do know for sure is that LA has always had high variance in the amount of precipitation received, ranging between 3 and 37 inches per year, with the average being around 15.

In the last five years, aside from the 2016-17 season, we've had far below average precipitation, which was a contributing factor (though not the main factor) to the fires.

Amazingly, the left is saying that this is climate change due to man-made factors.

How? Why?

Here we have an area with a very high variance in precipitation AND only 142 seasons' worth of data. Nothing can be concluded about the dryness of the 2010s in LA at this point, just like you can't say poker is rigged because you lost 6 of the last 7 hands you played.

But I've got tards insisting that this is permanent, man-induced climate change, and that LA will be far drier than average from now on.

I asked how LA had a record rain year in 2004-2005 (37 inches), and I got crickets.

Let's not forget the dire "hurricanes are going to be far more frequent and far worse" panic in 2005, only to have the following years end up quiet and below average intensity.
If the planet isn’t warming up, then why are the polar ice caps gradually melting away? The debate is whether humans are causing it, and I’ll take the scientists’ interpretation of the data over Druff’s “expert opinion”. BTW, I don’t give a shit if we are damaging the planet. I love the convenience fossil fuels bring to my life and have no intention of sacrificing for “the good of future generations”. Honestly, if humans destroy their ecosystem and become extinct (as many species have done over eons) the planet will go on fine without us.
I didn't say the planet isn't warming up.

I was talking about how the Los Angeles fires are not likely a result of climate change. The LA area is just very prone to this, and the yearly rainfall total is subject to huge natural variance.