In the case of Santa Ana wind fires, the science admits that climate change does not play any significant role. Here’s what a recent study showed:
▪️100%(!) of Santa Ana fires are caused by human ignition, not natural or climate factors.
▪️With Santa Ana fires, temperature and antecedent precipitation in the prior weeks or months, play a very minor role in areas burned. Burning is primarily dependent on wind speed and the number of human-ignited fires.
▪️In fact, over 75% of Santa Ana wind events produce no fires. Because it’s not climate caused, it takes an ignition event, which, in SoCal, are always human caused.
▪️This is why it’s so insane to blame climate change, as if building more windmills would stop future fires. The fires are human caused, thus the solution needs to be aggressive human intervention in the environment to reduce ignition events and limit available fuel (i.e. forest management).
Here’s the link to the study, screenshots in comments.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abh2262
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
