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Analysis of the January 2025 Los Angeles’ Wild Fires

. . . and claims they were “human-caused by <CO2-fueled> climate change.”

 Robert W. Endlich

 INTRODUCTION

This analysis examines the causes behind the catastrophic January 2025 fires in Los Angeles by exploring both environmental triggers and human failures that contributed to the disaster.  There are two main parts to this analysis, which are described below.

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Section A provides an analysis of the extant climate today, and the weather and fire events which unfolded in Los Angeles during the early days of January 2025.

The first of several catastrophic fires began and continued during an extremely powerful (and well-forecast) Santa Ana Wind event.

The analysis here reveals a diagnostic pattern for these types of fires found in the sea surface temperature time series in the Nino 3.4 Region along the Continue reading “Analysis of the January 2025 Los Angeles’ Wild Fires”

Media Lying About Climate And Hurricanes

It’s time to state the obvious.

Michael Shellenberger

[This article was originally published by the author on 4 October 2022 at this link.  We are reproducing it here under the fair use doctrine.  Ed]

Over the last several weeks, many mainstream news media outlets have claimed that hurricanes are becoming more expensive, more frequent, and more intense because of climate change.

The Financial Times reported that “hurricane frequency is on the rise.”

The New York Times claimed, “strong storms are becoming more common in the Atlantic Ocean.”

The Washington Post said, “climate change is rapidly fueling super hurricanes.”

ABC News declared, “Here’s how climate change intensifies hurricanes.”

Both the FT and N.Y. Times showed graphs purporting to show rising Continue reading “Media Lying About Climate And Hurricanes”