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None of the three was climate change-related.
Climate change have already made forest fires worst.
“Fires are natural in California: Many of its ecosystems, from the chaparral of Southern California to the northern pine forests, evolved to burn frequently. But since the 1980s, the size and ferocity of the fires that sweep across the state have trended upward. Fifteen of the 20 largest fires in California history have occurred since 2000.
The graphic above shows why: Most of the state’s hottest and driest years have occurred during the last two decades as well.
Over the past century, California has warmed by about three degrees Fahrenheit. That extra-warmed air sucks water out of plants and soils, leaving the trees, shrubs, and rolling grasslands of the state dry and primed to burn.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/climate-change-california-wildfire/
You also have studies that show that hurricanes already becomes more destructive becaues of climate change.
“One research team’s results, accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), found that in comparison to a typical 1950s hurricane, climate change likely increased Harvey’s seven-day rainfall by at least 19 percent. A separate study, published today in Environmental Research Letters (ERL), found similar results, showing that climate change boosted Harvey’s three-day rainfall by about 15 percent.
Both studies also found that climate change roughly tripled the odds of a Harvey-type storm.
“It is not news that climate change affects extreme precipitation, but our results indicate that the amount is larger than expected,” said Michael Wehner, a climate scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who coauthored the GRL study, in a press release.”
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/climate-change-study-hurricane-harvey-flood/