The Left, As Usual, Is Nuts, Wildfires Are Not Getting Worse Or Because Of Climate Change

[Rightguide]

Wildfires aren’t getting worse because of climate change. The real culprit will surprise you​

There's no evidence that number or severity of wildfires are increasing because of climate change​

By Justin Haskins | Fox News

However, despite countless statements from liberals and climate activists over the past two decades about the dangers of wildfires and extreme weather events caused by climate change, the available evidence overwhelmingly shows that no such connection exists. Wildfires are not becoming more frequent or burning more acreage. In fact, just the opposite is true.

The U.S. National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), which has been tracking wildfires for decades, reports that the number of fires in 2022 was 68,988, and the amount of acreage burned was 7.57 million acres.

That might sound like a lot of fires, but the NIFC data show that these figures are well within the historical norm. In 2017, for example, 71,499 fires were reported and more than 10 million acres were burned. One decade earlier, in 2007, there were 85,705 fires that burned 9.32 million acres.

How, then, do climate alarmists and Democratic politicians so often get away with asserting that wildfires are worsening? It’s all due to cherry-picked data.

More here: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/wil...ause-climate-change-real-culprit-surprise-you

 

[ll74]

Who is claiming that wildfires are getting worse due to climate change, specifically? The article alluded to it, but failed to provide sources of them doing so.

 

[Rotadom]

Rake it!

 

[John_von_Neumann]

Justin Haskins is the director of the Socialism Research Center at The Heartland Institute...

That's about what I expected.

 

[Rightguide]

Who is claiming that wildfires are getting worse due to climate change, specifically? The article alluded to it, but failed to provide sources of them doing so.

Read the friggin' article:

Biden tweeted, "We’ve deployed more than 600 U.S. firefighters, support personnel and equipment to support Canada as they respond to record wildfires – events that are intensifying because of the climate crisis."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., tweeted, "Extreme weather. Drought. Massive wildfires that destroy our air quality. Evidence of a climate crisis is all around us and Northeasterners can look no further than out their own windows to find it."

Again, from the article, here's a left wing source who says they're wrong:

The Center for Biological Diversity, a left-leaning environmental group, acknowledges that, "The vast majority of western dry forests are at risk of large, high-intensity fire because of the effects of poor forest management over the past century. The primary factors that lead to current forest conditions include logging large trees, fire suppression and livestock grazing. Since the beginning of the 20th century, all three of these factors have been present in western forests, and they continue to play a role today."

 

[John_von_Neumann]

Meanwhile, in the land of objective reality, we have this.

Did climate change cause Canada's wildfires?​

Although the genesis and spread of a wildfire is "complicated", however, Johnston says she is less hesitant than she used to be about making the link to climate change. Hoffman is also concerned when media reports on wildfires do not make the link to climate-induced disasters. "The science is very much telling a different story."

Attribution of the Influence of Human-Induced Climate Change on an Extreme Fire Season​

A record 1.2 million ha burned in British Columbia, Canada's extreme wildfire season of 2017. Key factors in this unprecedented event were the extreme warm and dry conditions that prevailed at the time, which are also reflected in extreme fire weather and behavior metrics. Using an event attribution method and a large ensemble of regional climate model simulations, we show that the risk factors affecting the event, and the area burned itself, were made substantially greater by anthropogenic climate change. We show over 95% of the probability for the observed maximum temperature anomalies is due to anthropogenic factors, that the event's high fire weather/behavior metrics were made 2–4 times more likely, and that anthropogenic climate change increased the area burned by a factor of 7–11. This profound influence of climate change on forest fire extremes in British Columbia, which is likely reflected in other regions and expected to intensify in the future, will require increasing attention in forest management, public health, and infrastructure.

 

[Rightguide]

Meanwhile, in the land of objective reality, we have this.

Did climate change cause Canada's wildfires?​

Although the genesis and spread of a wildfire is "complicated", however, Johnston says she is less hesitant than she used to be about making the link to climate change. Hoffman is also concerned when media reports on wildfires do not make the link to climate-induced disasters. "The science is very much telling a different story."

Attribution of the Influence of Human-Induced Climate Change on an Extreme Fire Season​

A record 1.2 million ha burned in British Columbia, Canada's extreme wildfire season of 2017. Key factors in this unprecedented event were the extreme warm and dry conditions that prevailed at the time, which are also reflected in extreme fire weather and behavior metrics. Using an event attribution method and a large ensemble of regional climate model simulations, we show that the risk factors affecting the event, and the area burned itself, were made substantially greater by anthropogenic climate change. We show over 95% of the probability for the observed maximum temperature anomalies is due to anthropogenic factors, that the event's high fire weather/behavior metrics were made 2–4 times more likely, and that anthropogenic climate change increased the area burned by a factor of 7–11. This profound influence of climate change on forest fire extremes in British Columbia, which is likely reflected in other regions and expected to intensify in the future, will require increasing attention in forest management, public health, and infrastructure.

There is no free press in Canada, only government BS.

 

[Shaglus_Ziegler]

Weather modification is climate change.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

There is no free press in Canada, only government BS.

LOL you can rhyme. Your post though is factually incorrect, but no surprise there.