EMH
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where do you get your ideas about desal and drought?
This really is not that difficult. On land, there are supplies of fresh water - rivers, lakes, streams, aquifers etc. Those are finite. Nature consumes water. Water comes from rain and snow to replace that. When you add in humans consuming more and more and more of that fresh water, you squeeze a finite supply, and you leave vegetation dry and ready to burn. Desalination of ocean water, in Hawaii for example, would reduce the human consumption of the island's finite supply of fresh water, leaving water in nature, and drinking and showering with ocean water.
Floods and droughts happen. The key is the long term. Keep increasing the human consumption and you make droughts worse. Hawaii has had plenty of droughts before, and this never happened. This happened in part because Hawaii keeps increasing human consumption of the island's fresh water, reducing what is left for nature.
Fires are not about 2 degrees of alleged "warming" that is not happening. Fires are about a lack of water in vegetation. Desalination is the immediate band aid solution. Long term, the problem is human overpopulation....