Leah C. Stokes is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Posted on 01/12/2018 8:59:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — On Tuesday morning, half an inch of water fell in nearby Montecito — half an inch in five minutes. Even in the best of conditions, this pace could cause flooding. But it wasn’t the best of conditions. Last month, we endured the largest wildfire in California history.
We say the extreme rain caused this disaster. We say it was the fire. And we say that multiple years of drought didn’t help. But what caused the rain, the fire and the drought?
There is a clear climate signature in the disaster in Santa Barbara. We know that climate change is making California’s extreme rainfall events more frequent. We know it’s worsening our fires. We know that it contributed substantially to the latest drought.
I have researched climate change policy for over a decade now. For a long time, we assumed that climate policy was stalled because it was a problem for the future. Or it would affect other people. Poorer people. Animals. Ecosystems. We assumed those parts of the world were separate from us. That we were somehow insulated. I didn’t expect to see it in my own backyard so soon.
It is never too soon after one of these disasters to speak truth about climate change’s role. If anything, it is too late. If we do not name the problem, we cannot hope to solve it. For my community, as much as yours, I hope we will.
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Leah C. Stokes is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
[There is a clear climate signature in the disaster in Santa Barbara. We know that climate change is making California’s extreme rainfall events more frequent. We know it’s worsening our fires. We know that it contributed substantially to the latest drought.]
Um, no we don’t. Always bolster your so-called argument with a false narrative to begin with. The left’s stock in trade.
Looks like a 12 year old, acts like a 12 year old. See the correlation there?
“assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.”
AKA assistant thought director.
There have been wildfires and mudslides in California every year for as long as I can remember, and that is decades. If the wildfires are getting more frequent, maybe it is because arson or carelessness have become more frequent.
That guy might be a nice looking young fella if he got a haircut.
Professor? What is she, twelve?
The climate changed in the back yard of the dinosaurs who used to live in the tropical rainforests of the Gunnison valley too.
This morning they were still frozen, and still dead.
In history? So you KNOW what wildfires took place in California's past 200, 500, 10,000 years?
Who believes these idiots?
Crop harvests this year have been at all time highs. Lines at grocery stores are long due to food shortages...
“We know that climate change is making California’s extreme rainfall events more frequent.” — LIE
“We know it’s worsening our fires.” — LIE
“We know that it contributed substantially to the latest drought.” — LIE
We know NONE of these things. Merely saying it doesn’t make it so.
“I have researched climate change policy for over a decade now.” — LOL. She is a know-nothing assistant professor of political science, the lamest of lame disciplines. She “researched climate change policy” which qualifies her for zilch.
What a steaming pantload.
Everybody knows it never rains in California. Celebrate it.
Proof from the past that California had no weather anomalies until GLO-BULL WARMING in the 1990s.
Oh wait!
http://glendoracitynews.com/2014/12/08/lost-footage-of-68-fire-and-69-mudslides/
300 years of past records!
https://www.weather.gov/media/sgx/documents/weatherhistory.pdf
Political Science? No wonder she's such a climate expert.
Let’s cure climate change and stick purely to drought..
First it was a drought, now it is extreme rainfalls. If this imbecile knew anything, she would note that large rainfalls in Cal occur during strong El Ninos which is a cooling current going east to west in the area south of San Diego. Seems to me, Globull Warming would cause warmer currents.
Furthermore, there were droughts of long duration in the late seventies in Ca, long before globull warming became a cause. There were also extreme rain events in 82 and 86.
One more nugget for this brain dead liberal, when I bought a home in Cal I was very careful where I located it. On the windward side of a hill, range, or mountain on clay topped rock was NOT the place to buy one.
Lastly, California for years has been basically a desert. That is why few people lived in LA before the huge water projects.
It’s called winter rains.
It happens every year in CA.
If she can afford to live in Santa Barbara, she can afford to deal with its problems.
So climate change is causing extreme rain and drought concomitantly? That’s a neat trick.
What these liberal tools will never understand why most of us oppose their views and theories on this. Frankly, we don’t care what they believe in - if they think fairy dust can turn Shetland ponies into unicorns, go for it.
But when it comes to global warming and climate change, we are vehemently opposed to the solutions they’re proposing. They require massive wealth distribution from rich countries through leviathan-scale bureaucracies who do not answer to the USA directly. What was the last estimate? More than $15 trillion raided and redistributed?
All this while even they admit that the so-called solution might not even have much of an impact. No thank you. The cure is definitely worse than the “disease” here and we will disagree with you that using oil, gas, and coal is a disease.
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