Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Wildfires: Tens of thousands evacuated while countless volunteers fight the flames | DW News" video.

  1. Get the greek "volunteers" (residents) out of there. They're the only people getting hurt, which means emergency services have to divert to resources to rescue the "volunteers" (residents instead of fighting the fire. Further, the "volunteers" (residents) have no clue what they're doing. As a result not only are they failing to put out fires completely, further diverting emergency services resources but the ambers from the fires they've failed to flully extinguish are spreading and causing new fires. They are hindering the operation, get them out of there and arrest all whom refuse. The Turkish volunteers are doing the right thing, they're nowhere near the fire. If they want those fire breaks to be useful they need to be twice as wide as they're currently cutting. Costas Synolakis is far from the head of the Academy of Athens, he's a third section member for geology. That's about as low on the pole as you can get and still be a member. The actual head of the academy is Loucas Christophorou. The head of climatology at the Academy is Christos Zerefos. Stop misrepresenting who people are, their role and their relevance. I understand that blaming climate change for everything bad that happens is very trendy today and that leads to better ratings. But jumping up and down, acting like there is an emergency is unhelpful. A single heatwave is not climate change, that's not how this works. Moreover, arson is not anything to do with climate. Yes, heatwaves do tend to bring out the arsonist all over the world, but that isn't the climate or even the weather itself. That's psychology. Understanding the difference between a singular regional weather event, climate and climate change is important. Genuine climate change isn't sexy, it isn't sensational and it doesn't get high ratings. Conflating singular weather events and climate change, particularly AGW is not accurate, helpful and really can be described as misinformation.
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