Thomas Fire Still Growing Under Longest Running Red Flag Warning Brown smoke continues to spew from the Thomas Fire in this image captured by the Aqua satellite on December 14,…
Category: Wildfires
Is climate change REALLY the culprit causing California’s wildfires?
We’re told that climate change caused or intensified California’s wildfires — and that such fires are getting worse. As usual for such scary stories, these claims are only weakly supported…
Wildfires: Separating Demagoguery from the Science
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Published in Range…
Deconstructing the Climate Demagoguery of the Wine Country Wildfire Tragedies
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism As sure as…
Inoculating forests against forest fires
From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO Fighting fires before they spark University of New Mexico research could impact forest management around the world With warm, dry summers comes a deadly caveat…
Finally, some commonsense western fire policies
New DOI and DOA policy to cut overgrown, diseased, dead and burned trees is long overdue Paul Driessen President Trump promised to bring fresh ideas and policies to Washington. Now…
Forest fires discovered during the cold climate of the last ice-age
Forest fires are not limited to hot or temperate climates A joint Canada-France study shows that there were wildfires in the Alps during an ice age 20,000 years ago UNIVERSITY…
Finding: Forest fires in Sierra Nevada driven by past land use – not climate
From the University of Arizona and Penn State comes this inconvenient finding. Forest fire activity in California’s Sierra Nevada since 1600 has been influenced more by how humans used the land…
Debunking the L A Times story claiming new study shows human caused warming doubled western U.S. area burned since 1984
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The October 10, 2016 Times article addresses a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences where the authors claimed that through…
Claim that wildfires are on increase due to 'climate change' is shown to be 'a prescribed result' of climate models
Read All About It! Heat Dries Things Up! By PATRICK J. MICHAELS and PAUL C. “CHIP” KNAPPENBERGER No one doubts that much of the West, especially California, has been very…
New study shows no wildfire increases due to global warming, slight decline in recent decades noted
From SWANSEA UNIVERSITY: Wildfire — it’s not spreading like wildfire Global wildfire: Misconceptions about trends and impacts revealed in new research A new analysis of global data related to wildfire,…
Breaking news! Fire melts permafrost.
From the department of Obvious Science, the “Surface Albedo Collective” and the University of Alaska comes this stunner of a press release. Research links tundra fires, thawing permafrost UNIVERSITY OF…
Ooops! Posited pine beetle to increased wildfire risk debunked by CU study
It has been posited by paid alarmists like Joe Romm that global warming will increase pine beetle outbreaks, thus increasing the chances of wildfire. For example, in April 2013 Romm…
U.S. forest fires versus climate model predictions
While we have one of the lowest US fire seasons to date on record so far… (Data at right from National Interagency Fire Center plotted by Tony Heller) …we have…
Study: Greenland's July 2012 'insta-melt' was triggered by a combination of warm weather and carbon soot
WUWT readers surely remember all the media hype over this story. This was REP’s last entry on WUWT: As WUWT readers are aware, there has been a great deal of…
A 'regime of wildfire' contributed to carbon sequestration 15,000 years ago
The next time somebody says wildfires in the USA are “unprecedented” show them this. Buried fossil soils found to be awash in carbon “It looks like there was an incredible…
AP misleads the public, again, saying man made global warming worsens wildfires
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin: Study claimed by climate fear press to support these claims addresses many contributing factors The climate fear media is at it again this time alleging…
'Years of Living Dangerously' shouts climate fire! But, data says their shouting is simply noise
Taking liberty or artistic license? Debunking the claims made in the film that almost nobody watches, and now shouldn’t even take seriously Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra…
The Southern California Colby wildfire and 'climate change'
While not a full-bore media hype yet, there are the beginnings of chatter on blogs and Twitter that the Colby fire in Southern California might somehow be related to “climate…
Sat imagery of Bushfires in New South Wales, Australia
From NASA: NASA’s Terra satellite detected dozens of bushfires continued raging in the Australian state of New South Wales, outside of Sydney. Sydney is the state capital and the most…
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