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Joe Rogan's blistering take on claims climate change caused wildfires
The LA fires, which began on January 7, have killed at least 28 people while destroying over 10,000 homes and leaving thousands homeless. While firefighters have contained nearly all flames across the city, many have blamed climate change for the spread. However, Rogan argued during the latest episode of 'The Joe Rogan Experience' that LA's longtime windy and dry conditions are the cause of the disaster - not climate change. He spoke about a fire that ran rampant through LA County's Topanga Canyon back in 1961 and said that the city's conditions create a 'fire season' every year. 'So here's the thing, this climate change narrative. This is a really goofy thing that people on the left are talking about, LA has had essentially the same weather pattern since the 1800s, since they started noticing them. 'There was a huge fire that razed through the Hollywood Hills, pre climate change [in] 1961. LA has always been dry as f***. It's a desert,' Rogan ranted during a conversation with Warren Smith, host of the Secret Scholar Society podcast. 'That's why the movie industry is there, because you could film outside, and you don't ever have to worry about it raining on you. That's literally why they came there, because it's the perfect climate. 
Podcaster Joe Rogan claimed that climate change is not the reason why of Los Angeles has been suffering from devastating wildfires 
The LA fires, which began on January 7, have killed at least 28 people while destroying over 10,000 homes and leaving thousands homeless Palisades fire continues to threaten homes as winds torment CA
'It is the climate of Los Angeles. It's a f****** desert. They put a city in the f****** desert because they wanted to film movies there. 'And it's also windy in the winter, because you get the Santa Ana winds, which is what just occurred. They've always happened. Every year, we get the Santa Ana [winds]. 'There's fire season for a f****** reason. Los Angeles has fire season. 'Where I used to live, it was fire season, and every time the winter would come and everything was dry and all the vegetation was brown and the wind was whipping around, everybody would get nervous.' Scientists do not agree and say that climate change is largely to blame for the destruction. The World Weather Attribution - a network of researchers from the US, UK and a number of other European countries - warned the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the fires were about 35 percent more likely due to global warming. Dr. Clair Barnes, a World Weather Attribution researcher at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, said: 'Climate change increased the risk of the devastating LA wildfires. 'Drought conditions are more frequently pushing into winter, increasing the chance a fire will break out during strong Santa Ana winds that can turn small ignitions into deadly infernos. 
While firefighters have contained nearly all flames across the city, many have blamed climate change for the spread 
Rogan argued during the latest episode of 'The Joe Rogan Experience' that LA's longtime windy and dry conditions are the cause of the disaster - not climate change 
The World Weather Attribution warned the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the fires were about 35 percent more likely due to global warming 
The LA fires were fanned by strong Santa Ana winds and fed by drought conditions dating back to May 2024 that left grasses and brush dry and highly flammable Experts added that the fire-risk conditions could become another 35 percent more likely if global temperatures rise 2.6°C above pre-industrial levels. Worryingly, the world is currently on track for this by 2100. The LA fires were fanned by strong Santa Ana winds and fed by drought conditions dating back to May 2024 that left grasses and brush dry and highly flammable. Meanwhile, wet winters in the previous two years had created more vegetation growth that added more fuel to the fire. The researchers examined the 'fire weather index' which uses the temperature, humidity, rainfall and wind speed in the preceding weeks and days to characterize the conditions that make fires more likely. They said that while coastal southern California is an environment 'highly prone to catastrophic wildfires,' the extreme fire weather index condition that drove the LA fires is getting more likely due to climate change.
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