Here We Go Again: No, Forest Fires are Not Getting More Likely or More Frequent - Granite Grok

Here We Go Again: No, Forest Fires are Not Getting More Likely or More Frequent

Forest fire leaves branch Photo by Alfred Kenneally on Unsplash

Local Media needs to talk about something, so why not wildfires. They are rare in Northern New England, making them ripe for a bit of scaremongering by the Climate Cult. What if, oh noes and Climate Change! How much longer will we be safe from the scourge? What scourge?

The timing is good. It’s going to be unseasonably warm this weekend. And there is never a wrong time to talk about wilderness and fire safety. A little breeze and an unattended fire can ruin a neighborhood surrounded by trees, and we’ve got more of those than not. But everything is green and wet in the spring.

It’s 40 or 80, but it has also been rainy. Wet and green do not wildfires make, but the “dry” season is creeping up on us (the fearmongering drought season – we have it every year), and not everyone is wet at the same time, so wildfires happen. The question is spin versus reality.

If you’d like a recent example, Climate Realism dissected a Market Watch scare-piece about burning in the Southwest that’s worth a read, and another here on Yahoo! news doing the same thing.

Related: US Forest Fire Data Tampering – They Dissapeared 57-Years of Inconvenient Truth.

The central planners are forever pointing at local events to justify global action, but there’s a problem. When it comes to burning average nationally or even globally, you’d be right to ask, where’s the fire?

 

US-fires-and-acres-burned

 

The slight uptick in the past decade, as we’re reported elsewhere, is probably a result of arson by environmentalists. Climate warriors, not the climate. Activists acting like those so-called victims of hate crimes we later discover were the perps themselves. Always to get pity or to promote an idea they are so certain is true that they have to commit the crime to make it so.

Related: CO2 Increases “Linked to” Rising Education Costs and More Gun Crimes in Democrat Cities but not Forest Fires.

The other culprit, domestically, is the result of environmental policy. Blocking efforts to clear fuel from the forest floor account for many fires and lost acreage (and often like) in places like California. Simple forest management would prevent fires or save average, but that’s not what they need, so the people blaming the climate for fires want to see it burn.

Globally, the burn average is also down in the past century, not just a little.

Global Burned area by decade

Add the rising global CO2 trend line, and there is NO connection between the Climate Cult’s darkhorse and wildfires nationally or globally. But that’s no excuse not to cling to their climate bibles and global warming guns, and they refuse to see the forest for the trees.

It has to be man-made climate change, or their entire faith system collapses.

 

 

 

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