In the past, climate change was science and learning about the process and its effects, with much already learned by the late 1970s, early 1980s, but with the present politics and suckers, it’s no surprise we now have Scientist Rebellion.

They even wear white coats and may state they are scientists, using that appeal to authority, but refrain from joining them in (old term) Direct Action. Attaching yourselves to things and disrupting activities (or breaking things) don’t look good even in white lab coats with the Extinction & Science Rebellion cult logo on them.

The models, for example, do not agree on the movement of the Pacific high-pressure area off the West Coast, key to climate change effects for the western USA (making it much drier and precipitation also more variable, or less reliable = aridification). There is even a paper on the models’ disagreement with an average (mean) result of moving slowly southward, which makes no sense. (A tenth of a degree northward annually, from another paper, makes more sense.) As for aridification and making more land arid, some writers have done bad and good work on this (the 100th meridian is not a “concept” and it doesn’t move, as some papers say; what can move is the arid-humid boundary, and those “discovering” the 98th meridian now neglect Webb’s 1931 work pointing to it as the arid-humid boundary already, long ago; drylands expansion and getting drier is the correct prediction, in another paper). The models don’t always work and other work done by people is bad.

James Lovelock, of Gaia fame, has said himself that the kids need to stop playing with models and simulations and writing papers about these (and meta-analyses of existing work or Internet searches of various publication databases) and go out in the field and make more measurements.

And California government is too stupid and self-crippled by poor politics to work on water supply.

Stay around for a few more decades and you’ll see the real changes happen, but they haven’t happened yet. Nothing that happens can be attributed directly to climate change at this time, and it’s irresponsible when not outright dishonest, for political reasons, to “graduate” to “might be due to climate change” to “due to climate change” as we see in the media and from like-poor-minded politicians.

It’s also ludicrous to expand climate change effects now not only to weather effects (as always concentrating on extreme events and news-makers for more hype potential) but to anything that could be imagined and added, which is even more ridiculous.

Under ailing Biden the kids have run somewhat wild here and there, now and then, as with this.

And this nonsense easily and routinely fools whom?

Also, 90%+ OF WILDFIRES IN CA ARE STARTED BY HUMAN ERROR/ARSON. Not climate change. Say that 10x to yourself in the mirror. Most of the largest and most destructive fires in recent history were manmade – OR a failure of the utility company. The most recent large fire in the state in Southern CA was from an illegal homeless camp.

So, author, if you advocated for cleaning up the homeless crisis in this state – and advocated for PGE to be more responsible – then you’d address 90%+ of the issue with fires. Then the next largest issue isn’t, again, climate change – it is the countless tons of garbage and human waste the homeless crisis creates all over the state. Destruction of ecosystems, water quality, etc.

Give me a break with the pretentious and elitist climate change garbage – at least until you clean up the trash first.