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Category: Wildfires
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…
Michigan State claim: Extreme wildfires likely fueled by climate change
Climate change is likely fueling the larger and more destructive wildfires that are scorching vast areas of the American West, according to new research led by Michigan State University scientists.…
An image of the Powerhouse Fire in California
From NASA: NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color satellite image of California’s Powerhouse Fire with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on June 1, 2013. Actively burning areas, detected…
@billmckibben fire season hype extinguished with inconvenient data
The problem with emotional people like Bill McKibben, is that they seldom delve beyond headlines and live in a world of imaginary constructs that fit their expectation. In this case,…
Australia’s Alien Environment Fuels Firestorms
A recent report from friends who suffered terrible losses of buildings, fences, pasture and cattle in the Coonabarabran fire commenced with the ominous and oft-repeated message: “a raging fire came…
Projecting doom from our current wildfire year using climate models
From the AGU fall meeting in SFO. Personally, I think wildfire risk (especially in the USA) would be better predicted by observing ocean patterns (ENSO, PDO, AMO etc.) than trying…
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