Heat waves and droughts exacerbated by warming climate



ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee discusses the historic wildfires ravaging the West Coast and how climate change is connected to the extreme weather across the country.

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36 comments

  1. naahhhh, climate change is a hoaaxxx! this is norrrmallll! we need EVERYONE's participation to circumvent the effects! Antartica has ALWAYS been a scorching hot desert!

  2. Climate change has nothing to with this……..OF COURSE ITS CLIMATE CHANGE.

  3. Your President Biden gave Ukraine πŸ‘ΉπŸ‘ΊπŸ‘Ώ billions upon billions upon billions of dollars to save it from Russia, I hope he's doing the same for the fire fighters because if he's not then he should be fired. πŸ•°οΈπŸ’©πŸŒžπŸŒ‘οΈπŸ”₯πŸŒ€πŸŒŠπŸŒ‹πŸŒͺ️😭πŸ€ͺπŸ˜«πŸ˜…πŸ˜΅πŸ˜œπŸ΅πŸŒšπŸ€ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²β˜’οΈπŸ’₯β˜ οΈπŸ’€βš°οΈ

  4. Sure, it's climate change and not the horrific policies and "leadership" in California πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ‘

  5. Cant wait until texas grids get so overwhelmed on a/c the grids fails and all the conservative die under the heat

  6. Most christians deniers are fat. they will be the first victims of climate change. A win for himanity

  7. crispy fried christians delicious

  8. Number of people on the planet 2022….7.5 Billion
    Number of people on the planet 2035….9.2 Billion

    Number of cows on the planet 2022……1.3 Billion
    Number of cows on the planet 2035……2.1 Billion

    Number of cars on the planet 2022……..1.3 Billion
    Number of cars on the planet 2035………2 Billion
    There will be 150 million electric cars on the planet in 2035.
    5% of the electric cars being built today will be in the junk yard by 2035.
    5o% of the gas powered cars being built today will still be on the road in 2035.

    Have a nice day!..πŸ˜€πŸŒ»

  9. Yeah let's keep asking if this is climate change while climate change just completely rolls over everything. Don't look up.

  10. The climate will always change and has since the beginning of time and you're never going to stop it!!! The climate will be different tomorrow!!!!

  11. It's not climate change! It's always been hotter than hell in California. It's environmentalist fighting the forest department for not clear burning when they needed to years ago and it still goes on today. It's always been hot and dry in California it's a desert!!!

  12. there is nothing strange or odd about this fire, emebrs trvel in the air and start spot fires all the time. and once a fire is strted, it makes its own weather. From what I understand, you havn't seen anything untill you see a Pyrocumolus Nimbus…a Fire thunder head. You see one of them you are USDA CHOICE grade A dead meat. because that is one firestrom you can not fight and win, only nature can kill that thing.

  13. FAKE FIRE crisis actors.

  14. Be seen from the ISS is fake news, photoshopped.

  15. Worse fires were 30 years ago, why the hype now?

  16. What a time it must be to be an insurance company. A lot of people will think they're covered and find out there's nothing left in the pot.

  17. Don’t look up and stop using the word mega

  18. California is being warned about Hells πŸ”₯ Fire πŸ”₯ that’s coming for the wicked…
    REPENT

  19. Look at all those emissions.. We better tax cali for excess carbon emissions. Pay up azzholes.

  20. Dry Conditions Over The Last 10 Years= Fukushima Fallout, Of Course Its Dry Its Irradiated…

  21. Probably how the end of life will happen on earth, a burning hell. Mass extinction of everything. Ca is at a tipping point, their posed to get mass earthquakes too. Climate change can't be swept under the rug any longer, it's impacting everyone across the globe.

  22. Fight climate change with diet change go vegan TODAY LIKE ALL LIFE on EARTH depends on it because it does Eating animals is a WASTE of precious food water fossil fuels land antibiotics and INNOCENT LIVES

  23. If anyone actually cares about the climate and biodiversity EMERGENCY please GO VEGAN animal agriculture is the LEADING cause of climate change 51%(according to the world watch institute) land clearing mass species extinction water usage water eutrophication ocean dead zones PLASTIC in the oceans pandemics human hunger diseases of excess and NEEDLESS unthinkable cruelty .

  24. The Gospel. πŸ‘‡πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌβ€οΈβ€πŸ”₯πŸ‘‡πŸΌβ€οΈπŸ™πŸΌπŸ‘‡πŸΌ
    Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except by Him. He was born of a Virgin, lived amongst people, died and rose again in fulfillment of the scriptures and prophets. He died for your sins. Repent and believe in Jesus and you will have eternal life. Turn to God, because This world is fading away quick. These are the end times. Amen. God bless everyone. Especially the victims and firefighters.

  25. Conditions will get worse before they get better. And they’re not get better without effort. As the wise man on street said, β€œstubbornness is our greatest enemy!” If this is a β€˜Union of States’ then a call for the water-rich states should not go unanswered! The Great Lakes States are experiencing regular seasonal flooding, yet offer no help to the critically arid ones! Evil InCorps can run thousands of miles of oil-pipes in just a few years, but no interest in doing the same for life sustaining water?!?!?

    But since the Nation is practicing the skewed logic of β€˜greed is good’ (who hasn’t seen Wolf of Wall St?), coastal dwelling Californians could save themselves by launching large arrays of fog-nets all along the coastline. This low-tech solution of capturing fog-vapor-water can yield unlimited quantities of precious fresh-water without any energy investment requirement.

    The desalination plants now operating full-time should be redesigned or shut-down entirely as they dump trillions of gallons of heated-acidic-brine back into the ocean. This changes the nominal pH of ocean water, thus triggering rapid deglaciation and causing a cascade of climate change disasters!

    Fog-nets are better than nothing and can be incrementally improved over time to increase yield efficiency. Coastal fog is a reliable source of fresh water (rolls in at 0400 and is dispersed by 1000 am daily) and is as pure as God’s tears … and free! Though they ought to be retractable/collapsable so as to not interfere with bird/bat habitats.

    It does not have to be hell everyday and only We the People can rebuild paradise!

  26. Disillusioned young people have turned to the Klimate Chaynge religion or the Alphabet sexual identity religion to fill that empty hole that has been created as they have lost that connection with the organised religion of their ancestors.
    These young people are searching for meaning, and crooks like Gore etc are selling them an outlet for their angst and need.
    It is sickening.

  27. Get these million airs to ride in a rubber band powered plane to save on energy. That is a good way to get rid of them once and for all! Rubber bands brake easily or wear out.

  28. Politicians made climate change a political issue when it is an engineering problem. No one expects politicians to solve an engineering problem. Here is the problem. Reliable power comes from fuels. Fluctuating power comes from alternative power (wind/solar) and makes an unreliable grid. Biden need to put out a public request, asking engineers & scientist to collaborate and come up with alternative green fuels just like they solved the rubber problem in WW2, then fund production of new green fuels. The whole world is going to need a lot of that new fuel to replace oil & gas. My guess, is that hydrogen fuel could be created from water, combined with CO2 extracted from the air, compressed, turned into liquid methane, which could be used in electrical plants and automotive. Synthetic Methane can be mixed with natural gas in any percentage as production comes online. Another possible alternative, algae absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere and could be a fuel & a food. Scientist & engineers around the world probably have many other possible solutions. Refocus the country and the world into better fuels.

    Why We Need Global Warming 80% of the worlds oxygen is produced during the summer phytoplankton bloom. In 1960 the world population was 3 billion and has grown to 8 billion and will grow another billion in 15 years. CO2 rise correlates with that growth in population. Human populations, livestock populations, and energy combustion to support those populations need oxygen. Global warming is God's way of balancing unrestrained population growth by giving us longer summers and longer phytoplankton blooms. If you want to stabilize CO2, then you need to stabilize world population by having only 2 children, one to replace each adult. If we don't stabilize CO2 & world populations, the earth will eventually become a lush tropical planet. That was the environment the world had when the dinosaurs were alive.

  29. I have only one way to help you. I require an offering on the Lords Altar. If you are not smart enough thats your burning problem. I gave California help before Arnold did not PAY. So now no one trusts your Governments. You pay first this time.

  30. How stupid is mining lithium then mining coal or diesel or natural gas to charge the lithium battery solar let's talk about that one black solar panels attract heat or global warming stop making black roads would be more beneficial than the EVs.

  31. In COMMUNIST California, kooks from the big cities drive out in the country to start wild fires for fun, they do it year after year, every time the Santa Anna winds blow, that is their favorite time, all the fire fighter's push for more money, wages, and retirement money, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GLOBAL WARMING, THAT IS A LIE, it's all about the money πŸ’° πŸ€‘ sonny, and criminals never being held to account, same old story WELL IT'S UNDER INVESTIGATION πŸ”Ž NO ONE IS EVER ARRESTED, and where there was once a shack, now sets a mansion, and a 5 car garage, I won't even get into the insurance industry scam.

  32. BS, globalists control climate. There is no climate crisis. The elites are creating it.