Hang Onto Your Hats
I seldom replay to comments, but yours deserves merit. Climate change is the polite way of exclaiming climate ruin. The California fires you are witnessing are a result of a huge high pressure system parked near the coast. It is 4 - 5 miles high and 2000 miles long. This high (a year now) acts as a barrier to storm fronts (lows) that would otherwise dump rains/snows. Your 100 year record breaking drought is also a result of this phenomenon. At this point the climatologists don't have a clue as to its cause. Yes, I am sure the billions of us inhabiting our delicately balanced planet are behind most of the ruin. The Chinese perhaps are more at fault than others. We in the Midwest are experiencing a very cold and snowy winter. This happens! It's just been a while. What will be interesting is what our spring and summer will be like if the stalled front persists. Observing the increasing intensity of wind storms (of every variety) over the last few years, I am pessimistic about what we have probably set asunder. Should the Chinese cut back significantly on emissions, the devastation of an out of whack global climate will continue -- for many years. A hundred or more? Likely.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
