Heat Pump.

Peter Bernard Ladkin:
“Sorted out”? What is “sorted out” here?
Besides, that is not a quote from CAMS. That is apparently a quote from someone claiming to be quoting CAMS.

While I do agree with your criticism on trusting the source, the contents of that quote was correct. I looked it up straight from CAMS, especially for you (and perhaps to test my own gullibility):

"2020 has been a year of extremes when it comes to wildfires. The Arctic and US saw record high levels of activity during the summer, whilst Canada and tropical Africa saw record lows. These lows have contributed to 2020 so far being one of the least active years since Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS*) records begin in 2003.
CAMS data show a generally decreasing trend since 2003, with 2020 one of the lowest years on record."
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/how-wildfires-americas-and-tropical-africa-2020-compared-previous-years

The research report referred to in the interview with Dr. Bates you chose to ignore tells us:

"Climate-driven variability in the occurrence of major floods across North America and Europe"
Glenn A. Hodgkins et al, 2017 in the Journal of Hydrology 552
"The results of this study, for North America and Europe, provide a firmer foundation and support the conclusion of the IPCC (Hartmann et al., 2013) that compelling evidence for increased flooding at a global scale is lacking. Generalizations about climate-driven changes in floods across large domains or diverse catchment types that are based upon small samples of catchments or short periods of record are ungrounded."
mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/.../MurphyCo_Climate-driven_2017.pdf

Regrettably, the above would probably not be a consolation to your German and Californian colleagues who have suffered. However, it shows that occurrence of such events is very likely not CAGW-related, no need to blame CO2 here.  

I would still like to hear your opinion about statements of Dr. Bates in that short video. Would you suggest that he is lying about his research results of ECS about 1 degree C being ignored by IPCC?

Peter Bernard Ladkin:
“Sorted out”? What is “sorted out” here?
Besides, that is not a quote from CAMS. That is apparently a quote from someone claiming to be quoting CAMS.

While I do agree with your criticism on trusting the source, the contents of that quote was correct. I looked it up straight from CAMS, especially for you (and perhaps to test my own gullibility):

"2020 has been a year of extremes when it comes to wildfires. The Arctic and US saw record high levels of activity during the summer, whilst Canada and tropical Africa saw record lows. These lows have contributed to 2020 so far being one of the least active years since Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS*) records begin in 2003.
CAMS data show a generally decreasing trend since 2003, with 2020 one of the lowest years on record."
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/how-wildfires-americas-and-tropical-africa-2020-compared-previous-years

The research report referred to in the interview with Dr. Bates you chose to ignore tells us:

"Climate-driven variability in the occurrence of major floods across North America and Europe"
Glenn A. Hodgkins et al, 2017 in the Journal of Hydrology 552
"The results of this study, for North America and Europe, provide a firmer foundation and support the conclusion of the IPCC (Hartmann et al., 2013) that compelling evidence for increased flooding at a global scale is lacking. Generalizations about climate-driven changes in floods across large domains or diverse catchment types that are based upon small samples of catchments or short periods of record are ungrounded."
mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/.../MurphyCo_Climate-driven_2017.pdf

Regrettably, the above would probably not be a consolation to your German and Californian colleagues who have suffered. However, it shows that occurrence of such events is very likely not CAGW-related, no need to blame CO2 here.  

I would still like to hear your opinion about statements of Dr. Bates in that short video. Would you suggest that he is lying about his research results of ECS about 1 degree C being ignored by IPCC?