There has been drumbeat in the media that the wildfires were the result of, or significantly enhanced by, global warming/climate change due to increasing greenhouse gases such as CO2.
Category: Wildfires
Wildfires in France
Just an interim look at the latest fires in France, wildfire area in the EU so far this year is within the normal range:
Wrong, Wisconsin Examiner and Investigative Post, Canadian Wildfire Smoke Is Not Proof of Climate Change
The real story isn’t that smoke drifted hundreds of miles from Canadian wildfires. Wildfire smoke commonly does that and has throughout history, as was discussed at Climate Realism previously, here and here, for…
Live at 1 PM ET: Blame Canada! Smoky Skies and Climate Change — The Climate Realism Show #209
Wildfires in Canada have become a major story in the US because the smoke from those fires have traveled a very long way, covering the skies of cities in the…
Canadian Wildfire Smoke Just Crossed the Border—And It Blew Up the Fantasy of Carbon Emission Trading
The border does not stop the wind. It does not stop the smoke. And it certainly does not create the perfect information and clear property rights that emission trading requires.…
Canadian Wildfire Smoke Spreads Across U.S., Triggering Air Quality Alerts
There are many things that seemed to have worked better in 1992, especially in Canada. Perhaps it is time to return to more traditional approaches rather than bitterly clinging to…
Wind and Wildfire
When it comes to Northwest wildfires, many only consider precipitation and temperature. But for most Northwest wildfires during the summer, another element is more important: strong winds.
Fire Fighting in European Union: Don’t Forget The Decade of Policy Failures in California
The parallels are startling, and they reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of what actually causes these catastrophes. Whether in the Mediterranean or the American West, the narrative has become a convenient…
Sorry, Los Angeles Times, Climate Change Isn’t Driving Georgia’s Wildfires
The LAT writes that “wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent and damaging in the East, such as last week’s blaze that destroyed dozens of homes in Georgia, fire scientists said.”
Wrong, AP, Wildfires Have Always Burned at Night
The AP’s story does not represent accurate reporting. It is climate narrative reinforcement layered on top of selective data and incomplete history. The Associated Press should be ashamed to foist…
Stop Protecting Insurance Profiteers, San Francisco Chronicle, Climate Change Is Not Responsible for California’s High Cost of Living
Blaming climate change is an easy out for insurance profiteers and their enablers, and it’s even better if the costs of weather damage can be passed off onto oil companies…
Does Low Snowpack Increase the Chances of Washington State Wildfires?
Why is the Seattle Times and others providing obviously false information to the public about snowpack and wildfire? Even Google’s AI knows better:
Did CA Park Official of Limit Firefighting Efforts to Contain Palisades Blaze to Protect Native Plants?
Additionally, new LAFD whistleblower testimony alleges Palisades fire wasn’t fully out before it roared back and incinerated the city.
SPACE.com Swallows Lies that Climate Change Is Making Wildfires Worse, It Isn’t
The underlying study used cherry picked data to claim wildfires were worsening. A review of larger data sets, both location-based historical measurements of wildfire acreage burned and large satellite data…
California needs Biomass Energy to Meet its Wildfire goals. Its Policies Keep Burning them Down
The lesson is not confined to biomass. It applies to California’s broader governing philosophy: a preference for symbolic goals over practical trade-offs, for slogans over engineering, for regulation over results.…
Forest Composition and Fire History In Light of New Evidence
Our problem now is that we cannot return to methods used by indigenous peoples other than for small, prescribed burns. The amount of forest fire smoke would be many times…
No, Al Jazeera, Climate Change Is NOT Resulting in More Air Pollution From Wildfires
Guest essay by Linnea Lueken Al Jazeera posted an article titled “Climate-change-driven wildfires increasing air pollution across globe: UN,” which claims that wildfires are becoming more frequent due to climate…
The Truth Behind Britain’s Wildfires
Labour’s rewilding plans risk sparking a surge in wildfires across Britain, gamekeepers have claimed.
False Stories in the New York Times and the Seattle Times on Western Washington Megafires
Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story that was blatantly false, with the Seattle Times featuring it as well.
Wildfires in the Mediterranean: History vs. Climate Narrative
Reuters chose to continue the drumbeat that climate change is behind everything bad that happens.