Climate Scientist Debunks L.A. Wildfire Myths with Dr. Daniel Swain

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Southern California has been utterly decimated by wildfires, with the neighborhoods of Pacific Palisades and Altadena being virtually leveled to the ground. In this special episode, released outside of our usual schedule, Adam sits down with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain to unpack what really happened—both in terms of the environmental factors and the disaster response, and to dispel the misinformation swirling around these devastating fires.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.3	I don't know the way.
0:10.9	I don't know what to think.
0:13.6	I don't know what to say.
0:16.6	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:19.4	That's okay.
0:21.8	I don't know anything.
0:25.7	Hello, welcome to Factually.
0:27.3	I'm Adam Conover.
0:28.3	This is a special episode that we're releasing outside of our normal schedule
0:31.5	because we need to talk about the fires that have devastated Los Angeles
0:35.5	over the past few weeks.
0:37.3	If you've been watching the news, I'm sure you have.
0:40.4	You have a sense of the scale of the devastation.
0:44.0	I'll give you the numbers.
0:45.1	Nearly 40,000 acres have been burned.
0:47.3	80,000 people are still under evacuation.
0:50.3	Tens of thousands of people have lost their homes, including numerous dear close friends of mine
0:56.8	who are now homeless staying with family and trying to figure out what the path forward is,
1:02.5	as are so many of their neighborhoods. Two entire cities of Los Angeles, the Pacific
1:07.3	Palisades and Altadena have been effectively leveled, burned to the ground.
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