What role, if any, has global warming played in the California wildfires taking place right now?

Answer 1

It's a mistake to blame global warming for any short event in any one location. That's just weather.

What is true is that global warming will cause more droughts to occur in California and thus make even wildfires (or arson) more of a problem in the long run.

So damage from increased fires is a major problem resulting from global warming, even though blaming any one fire on global warming is wrong.

Mr Jello - an uncharacteristically nasty answer from you. I'm sure you don't actually believe that.

Answer 2

None. The truth is that on the average it is only 1 - 2 degrees warmer than it was over 100 years ago. This is not enough to completely dry out these forest to the point where it causes these super fires. An environmentalist group, called the Sierra Club, lobbied an anti logging bill into law. I am not sure if it is intentional or not, but this law also prevents the state and private citizens from clearing brush in state forest and privately owned land. Now, instead of this undergrowth being cleared out with controlled burns or by other means, it has built up year after year. This provides so much dry fuel for the fires, we are unable to stop them. Anyone that tries telling you global warming is the cause of these fires being so intense is full of ****. In all honesty, global warming has nothing to do with it.

Answer 3

None. The SantaAna winds are a normal part of west coast life. They have been for centuries it's just that there is so much politics involved now with hidden agendas to advance.

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is
becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.
As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 4

wrong wrong and wrong wildfires although men do start them aren't as dastardly as u think in fact its part of nature before we (humans) got here there were enormous fires the size of states its just natures way of getting rid of all the older dead trees so new ones can grow global warming might have an effect on the climate witch drys grass witch catches on fire but this would have happened anyways so even if there wasn't global warming there would still be a big fire in Calli so the short answer is very little or nothing at all

Answer 5

The wildfires were caused by arson. The person who set the fires is most likely a global warming believer who started the fires as a means to call attention to the cause.

Answer 6

Global warming helped create conditions in which the wildfires could thrive. Researchers warned us of this possibility a year ago.

"November 14, 2006

Fire crews, land managers, ecologists and others need a better understanding of how global warming is making wildfires more frequent, bigger and more destructive, thousands of researchers meeting in San Diego agreed yesterday.

Their statement, issued at the Third International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in San Diego, was part of a grim declaration that called for new approaches to living with wildfires as constant companions.

“We're going to see more fire, not less,” said Robin Wills, president of the meeting's sponsor, the Association for Fire Ecology. “These increases . . . are going to be part of our new reality.”

Answer 7

That's not known. Its possible global warming is already playing a role in climate change patterns--in this case making the drought in California worse. That is not certain, however.

What is certain is that, whether or not global warming is partly responsible for the severity of these fires, it is an example of the kind of thing global warming is going to cause in the future--except a lot more and far worse.

Answer 8

None, nothing, nada..and anyone trying to say it is..is a nut case..the fires were started by arson...and bark beetles have killed some of the trees that made them vulnerable and people didn't have addiquate clearences and many other factors...IT'S NOT GLOBAL WARMING!

Answer 9

None. It is the result of arson and years of improper forestry management though the powers the be won't admit that.
They would rather blame Bush and "global warming".

Answer 10

None, at least according to the surface temperatures of the San Diego area.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=425722900004&data_set=1&num_neighbors=1