With wildfires engulfing over 620,000 acres of California, there’s been a concerted media campaign to single out man-made global warming as the primary force behind the deadly blazes.
But that’s not what the data suggests, according to University of Washington climate scientist Cliff Mass.
“So there is a lot misinformation going around in the media, some environmental advocacy groups, and some politicians,” Mass wrote in the first of a series of blog posts analyzing the California wildfires.
“The story can’t be simply that warming is increasing the numbers of wildfires in California because the number of fires is declining. And area burned has not been increasing either,” Mass wrote.
Firefighters are struggling to put out the largest fire in recent decades, the Mendocino Complex fire, that’s consumed over 300,000 acres in northern California. Environmentalists and some scientists have pushed a media narrative that blazes across the state to global warming.
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Yup, Trump made the Hawaiian volcano erupt, too. Of course, that will contribute to global warming in a big way, right?
ReplyDeleteThese wild fires are a result of forestry miss-management. They are perfectly naturally occurring. Evacuate the people and let it burn. Why risk lives and waste money fighting it ? I don't feel sorry for people that rebuild in flood zones either. Get out with your life. It's just property and your just renting in the big picture. We need some great Urban fires of lore if you ask me. Starting with Chicago. Fire is a great purgative.
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