??? It's hotter and drier in the summer. How would hotter and drier weather NOT drive more fires? Excluding the years that the USFS didn't try to stop every tiny fire more and more acres are burning every year but worse the fires are burning hotter and faster.
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Look at the flooding from Harvey, Ida and the recent flooding in Germany. Those were rainfall events that would be impossible in a cooling world. Warmer air carries more moisture ~7% more per C => more extreme rainfall is possible and more frequent.
And the flow rate of the colorado river is hitting record lows. The outflow is also diverging more from rainfall. Higher temperature mean more water evaporates instead of flowing down the river.
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Not to mention ocean acidification, species loss, increased disease spread, spread of invasive species like the bark beetle, increased tree loss, due to bark beetle, famine due to drought, increased conflict due to resource scarcity, increased heat waves, increased cold snaps due to instability in the jet stream, significantly higher insurance rates due to severe weather, increased political instability due it climate migration, loss of coral due to bleaching, economic damage from loss of tourism due to coral bleaching, lower output from nuclear and solar facilities due to higher ambient temperatures, increased electricity use due to wider climate swings. All the fun bonuses that come with our pathetic addiction to fools fuel....