Thanks. I understand the mechanisms of climate change on a basic level, I just hadn’t thought what occurred in Hawaii was due to extreme weather caused by climate change.
Dry and windy, as another said. It’s just exacerbating the weather extremes and making them more common. There were 70+ MPH winds blowing embers everywhere in this instance.
There’s been at least one study in Nature describing increased winds due to climate change. It seems likely that effect contributed here. Assessing contribution from climate change to individual weather events is a headache, though. If anything on this one ultimately gets published, then I think it will take awhile longer before it happens.
Thanks. I understand the mechanisms of climate change on a basic level, I just hadn’t thought what occurred in Hawaii was due to extreme weather caused by climate change.
Dry and windy, as another said. It’s just exacerbating the weather extremes and making them more common. There were 70+ MPH winds blowing embers everywhere in this instance.
There’s been at least one study in Nature describing increased winds due to climate change. It seems likely that effect contributed here. Assessing contribution from climate change to individual weather events is a headache, though. If anything on this one ultimately gets published, then I think it will take awhile longer before it happens.