scott fJan 15, 2025
I'm reading a book about California's chaparral ecosystem and it's fascinating how it depends upon periodic wildfires. There are entire species whose seeds are only activated by fire. Those fires, however, sure as fuck didn't use to happen in January along with 90mph winds. That's climate change.
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“To say California has always had wildfires, that they’ve always had extreme events, is a classic form of climate denial,” Peter Gleick, a climate scientist and the co-founder of the Pacific Institute, told Yahoo News. “For years, those of us in the climate community have heard, ‘The climate has always changed. We’ve always had floods, droughts and heat waves.’ And that’s just totally disingenuous. Of course we’ve had those things. The question is whether climate change is making those things worse, and the answer is yes.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/yes-wildfires-have-always-happened-in-california-but-climate-change-is-making-them-worse-223447766.html

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@scott what book?
Jan 15, 2025 at 5:04amWeb
Show threadscott fJan 15, 2025
@tomeppy Quinn and Keeley, Introduction to California Chaparral https://www.ucpress.edu/books/introduction-to-california-chaparral/paper
Introduction to California Chaparral by Ronald D. Quinn, Sterling Keeley - Paper

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