Scientists Misreport Climate Cause of LA Wildfires

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By Paul Homewood

 During the recent wildfires in Los Angeles, the media briefly latched on to a study which apparently blamed climate change for making the blazes more likely to occur and also more intense. But is that really what the study says? Let’s take a look.

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Jeff Alberts
March 16, 2025 6:09 pm

“www.youtube.com’s server IP address could not be found”. WHa??

Reply to  Jeff Alberts
March 16, 2025 6:23 pm

Link works for me..

But it is irrelevant anyway, because they are using “climate computer game simulations”,

… so even if the press does totally misrepresent what the computer game simulation spits out..

… any conclusion of any sort is based on non-science from the start..

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Jeff Alberts
March 17, 2025 8:23 am

At the time I posted, the embedded video wasn’t showing, and that’s the message that was shown, for several minutes.

BCBill
Reply to  Jeff Alberts
March 17, 2025 9:17 am

Here is Sabine explaining what happened to the video (https://youtu.be/vDsjeKo3u3o?si=w_qAMmncn4GW2L15). In short, due to the usual whining from the climate cabal, she pulled the video for a while while she rechecked her conclusions. In the end she found the paper to be worse than she thought.

Reply to  BCBill
March 17, 2025 12:23 pm

Yes: “this paper is even worse than I thought” and “Dark orange, my ass”.

Also notes the paper was a “rapid attribution study” and not peer-reviewed, although this caveat was not mentioned in the press release.

Climate journalists are even more worthy of scorn than most climate scientists.

Reply to  Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7
March 17, 2025 4:31 pm

I find that on the scale of credibility, Climatology ranks just below Scientology.

Alastair Brickell
March 16, 2025 6:26 pm

Link works for me…

Good to see Sabine being a bit of a climate skeptic for a change…she’s gone up in my estimation slightly!

Bill Parsons
Reply to  Alastair Brickell
March 16, 2025 6:50 pm

Here’s what the local Colorado Sabine (Kathy Sabine) reported…

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=462067921956885&set=a.286177956212550

Bill Parsons
Reply to  Bill Parsons
March 16, 2025 6:51 pm

100% confidence!

Kurt Lettau
Reply to  Alastair Brickell
March 16, 2025 7:01 pm

I had exactly the same reaction !
I have noticed her flip-flop several times now.

Perhaps, she needs do a much more detailed and balanced study on this topic – instead of putting her name forward, to something, someone else in her circle has reviewed …?

Tom Halla
March 16, 2025 6:29 pm

Blaming “climate change” for the LA fires is the worst non sequitur since “other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?”.
Chaparral gets dry enough to burn in a few hours, and wildlands management was deliberately not done.

March 16, 2025 6:41 pm

Publishing news about a study that “finds” results from a statistically insignificant data source is the new science that everyone should be following, according to the mainstream media.

If that weren’t true, then they wouldn’t publish it. But they do.

Reply to  doonman
March 16, 2025 11:06 pm

There was a paper a couple years ago that trashed statistical significance. The CCC community latched onto it, and it now justifies such ridiculous attribution studies.

Bob
March 16, 2025 7:46 pm

I’m with her, I am sick and tired of these lowlife bottom feeding pseudo scientists flat out lying to us. These are supposed to be well educated people working for us at institutions that are only operating because of our tax dollars. They need to be held accountable, the individuals who authorized the study, the individuals who did the study, the institution where the study took place, the individuals who peer reviewed the study and the institution that published the study. Lying and cheating is not okay especially by those we should be able to look up to. These guys suck.

BCBill
March 16, 2025 8:09 pm

A crack in Sabine’s uncritical belief in the climate fraud. If she continues to read the garbage climate publications for herself, I expect the cracks to rapidly grow.

Robertvd
Reply to  BCBill
March 17, 2025 3:04 am

Cracks are the first signs of an unstable foundation.

Reply to  BCBill
March 19, 2025 1:19 pm

From what I’ve seen she’s see-sawed on the issue for some time.

March 17, 2025 1:53 am

Surely as soon as a confidence level bridges 1 then the result is statistically meaningless?

March 17, 2025 4:41 am

Generally, I regard Sabine Hossenfelder’s material on climate change to be off the mark. But in this video she is right. Her unsparing flaming of the bogus event attribution claims is justified. Good for her.

Dr. Bob
March 17, 2025 6:07 am

What do you expect from an organization with the title World Weather Attribution. Thier job is to attribute all weather to climate change, and they would have failed in their mission if they didn’t. And that means that they continue to receive funding from others (USAID?) and can continue their mission unhindered with the burden of being accurate as their supporters want nothing like accuracy, only results that produce the desired headlines. Job done. Move on.

Reply to  Dr. Bob
March 17, 2025 9:09 am

Wildfires aren’t weather.

March 17, 2025 7:54 am

If it is not climate change it must be due to unnecessary vaccinations… or whatever the latest popular excuse of the day !

Mr Ed
March 17, 2025 8:20 am

Climate change ??? don’t believe your lying eyes===>

I'm not a robot
March 17, 2025 11:01 am

It seems she has “taken down ” the video, at least if I interpret this correctly (must admit, I find her hard to pay attention to and did not stick with it to the end).

March 17, 2025 11:58 am

Story tip?

This Bel Air fire in Los Angeles happened in 1961! Apparently, the current city, county and state officials forgot about the lesson’s learned from that fire, as explained in this film. This is gross ignorance and all the leaders of the recent area that caught fire in January should be tried and convicted of gross negligence and burned at the stake – on a barge out in the ocean as they face the burned areas on shore, so as not to start another fire – as a warning and lesson to new leaders.
Share this with your friends and family living in California.

https://youtu.be/UxnC1WW95XE?si=MY2RNhpCrUih35WN

March 17, 2025 12:26 pm

Sabine has put up another video “Why I took down my climate science video”

Peter Rees
March 18, 2025 1:08 am

Sabine is normally so rational and data driven. But on climate change she reverts to the jungle. What is surprising is that she was surprised to find out that the paper finds no statistical evidence to support the “climate change caused the LA fires” hysteria.

could she finally be realising that it’s the greatest scam ever perpetuated on mankind

KevinM
Reply to  Peter Rees
March 18, 2025 1:57 pm

I listened to another sciencey podcaster waffle through climate – a careful ear could tell she had figured it out but … have to pay the bills.

Mikko Paunio
March 18, 2025 2:13 am

Green forestry coupled with aggressive forestfire control is the formula for disaster. In Finland we do not have forest fires and we rake forests and have extensive forest road network, which allows fire fighters to put forestfires down readily. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/12/trump-was-right-about-raking-finnish-forests/