Peter Kalmus, a data scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and noted climate scientist, told the Bloomberg audience that the California fires are caused by the fossil fuel industry which produces products that, when used, heat the planet. “It’s simply physics,” he said with certainty.
Shawn Hackett of Hackett Advisors makes his living helping agriculture producers deal with climate change. He told Ash Bennington on Real Vision, “the climate is always changing” because the other planets in our solar system change their rotations. He added that the sun isn’t producing sun spots as it did previously and that is creating volatile weather and will continue to until 2050.
The current spike in temperatures is from the Tonga Effect. A one-in-a-thousand year VEI-6 Volcanic eruption happened on January 15, 2022, which pumped water vapor aerosol into the atmosphere. Record-high temperatures were predicted and that’s what has happened. But the Tonga Effect is receding.
Hackett reminds us that there was an awful drought in the 1930’s known as the Dust Bowl. Temperatures were above 100 degrees in Iowa for days on end. In the 1970’s, an ice age was predicted.
This is interesting because it pits an environmentalist against a person earning his living making weather predictions for farmers and insurance companies. Just for my delight and edification, who do you think makes the more accurate weather predictions? I would put my money on the guy doing this for the farmers and insurance companies because he is paid for being accurate. The other guy, not so much because he has no skin in the game. The article even brings in a small cut of the show called The Landsman that makes me want to see it.