Comments by "John Peric" (@johnperic6860) on "DW News" channel.

Can you please cite evidence that the conditions in Lahaina were amplified by climate change? For instance: • provide evidence that powerful wibds are becoming more common in Lahaina during the summer. • provide evidence that Lahaina's dry season (the summer) is getting drier, oe that winters are getting wetter. Why are you people spreading misinformation and claiming these fires are caused by climate change when there is quite literally nothing to suggest this is the case?
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 @StephenGillie no, we fixed it by doing crop rotation and no longer being in a drought.
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 @user-ve9tu5rv6e was it climate change in 1939?
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 @peterclarke7240 okay, but that has nothing to do with the ambient temperature of the air. The sun can spontaneously ignite fuel even if its -30 outside.
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@elephantintheroom5678 A drought isn't climate change, climate change is defined by long term trends, not anomalous occurrences. If you wanted to blame the drought on climate change, you'd have to show that there us a long term decrease in precipitation in Lahaina. And the weather has been average in Lahaina, with Temperatures in the low to mid 80s for the past week.
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 @Sevenfold120 Was the 1939 storm "extremes becoming more extreme"?
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 @SkyeRangerNick There's nothing to indicate that Global warming causes more extreme weather.
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@DaRedeyeJedi808 What has changed? The climate? Nobody denied this. I'm asking for evidence that these fires are fueled by climate change.
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 @bardgold4553 yes, but they're not caused by 85° temperatures.
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@AaronOkeanos Except Lahaina is and always has been an arid area, and it isn't getting any drier. Lahaina only receives 14 inches of rain annually (comparable to Los Angeles). The ground is rarely wet, especially during this time of year, which is the dry season. And lastly, Hawaii historically had active fire regimes, especially in its more arid or Mediterranean climate zones.
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@soundscape26 No, it doesn't, fire spreads just as well in 100° air as it does in -30° air. A 2000° fire doesn't care about a 130° difference in temperature. And besides, Lahaina has been in the 80s this past week, that is hardly extreme heat.
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@soundscape26 Is that not what this entire thread is talking about? And the journalist doing the interview strongly insinuated that heat waves may be causing the fires in Maui, I recommend rewatching the video.
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@Rnankn "healthy biome in a stable climate is resilient and not easily ignitable" Did you just claim that fires rarely happen unless a region's climate has changed? So I take it that you believe the research which has found 40-200 million acres of land burned annually in contiguous America before European settlement is just a lie, correct? This is absolutely untrue, literally, nothing in your comment is scientifically accurate whatsoever. I can't even fathom where you got this made-up idea.
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@peterclarke7240 You forgot what you commented: "The heat from the sun CAN start fires, if there's sufficient dry fuel and oxygen. However, most wildfires are the result of human actions, whether deliberate or accidental. Even a spark from an overhead electrical wire can be sufficient, particularly in an area experiencing a drought, such as Hawaii" I then responded: "okay, but that has nothing to do with the ambient temperature of the air. The sun can spontaneously ignite fuel even if its -30 outside." You argued against them, by saying the sun can cause spontaneous ignition. While this is true, it isn't exactly relevant to the discussion of ambient temperatures causing fires (and therefore climate change fueling fires). So yes, when you are discussing whether Climate Change increasing ambient temperatures has fielded fires, it is not relevant to bring up direct heating from the sun, which is not related to climate change whatsoever.
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@elephantintheroom5678 "John Peric Drought IS a result of climate change." No, drought is a result of short-term weather patterns (such as the location of high-pressure ridges). A CHANGE in the frequency or intensity of droughts would be an example of climate change, but one single drought on its own is not. "Warmer temperatures enhance evaporation, which reduces surface water and dries out soils and vegetation." This is not what drought is. Drought is when an area experiences below-average precipitation. In Lahaina, temperatures were in the mid to low 80s, within +/-1C of the typical temperature for that area for the past week.
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 @waylondesnoyers4606 But did they?
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@waylondesnoyers4606 Use context clues dude, what was your first comment responding to?
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