Reducing available fuel seems and obvious strategy for fire risk management. But according to the CSIRO, the real culprit is climate change.
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Media Promotes Badly Flawed Science Spreading It Like Wildfire
Despite the bad science a multitude of media outlets like NY Times and CNN falsely promoted the paper as evidence that climate change cause more wildfires
Justin Rowlatt’s Fake Californian Wildfires Report
All in all, this is an extremely shoddy piece of reporting by Justin Rowlatt, who evidently is the BBC’s go to guy for climate disinformation.
No, CNN, Wildfires Will Not Be Destroying Times Square, New York City
Newsflash – wildfires have not engulfed New York City any time since SUVs were invented, nor will wildfires ever engulf New York City. Even if wildfires ever do engulf some area within…
The U.S. Could Have Wildfire Smoke Radar
Imagine the ability to determine the three-dimensional distribution of wildfire smoke across the United States in real-time.
The Malden Wildfire and Climate Change: Why Are Major Media and Politicians Distorting the Truth?
Unfortunately, a number of media outlets (e.g., the Seattle Times and NPR), politicians, and activist groups are consistently distorting the truth. There are few better examples of this problematic behavior than…
Understanding Wildfires and Climate and How we Must Adapt
Video explaining the ecology of wildfires and why California is more prone to fires than the rest of the USA
National Public Radio’s Misinformation on Wildfires and Climate: Part 2
. All the climate models could do is project imagined disasters in the future. Rarely does the media mention the grass/fire cycle, or the dryness of ENSO cycles. Instead NPR…
National Public Radio’s Misinformation on Wildfires and Climate: Part 1
With every wildfire report, NPR now adds climate crisis comment but ignores wildfire science. I learned more about heat transfer and wildfires as a boy scout. I also expanded my…
A fiery past sheds new light on the future of global climate change
Many of today’s climate models rely on past levels of greenhouse gasses and aerosols to validate their predictions for the future. But there’s a problem: While pre-industrial levels of greenhouse…
Fact Checking the Wildfire-Climate Link
Wildfire physics simply does not support any such fear mongering narratives. Every politician, every environmental group and every scientist trying to scare up more funding by uncritically blaming wildfires on…
Another dangerous fire season is looming in the Western U.S., and the drought-stricken region is headed for a water crisis
Just about every indicator of drought is flashing red across the western U.S. after a dry winter and warm early spring. The snowpack is at less than half of normal…
Claim: California’s Rainy Season Starting Nearly A Month Later Than It Did 60 Years Ago
The new study in AGU’s journal Geophysical Research Letters, which publishes high-impact, short-format reports with immediate implications spanning all Earth and space sciences, is the first to quantify just how…
An Important Finding about the September Labor Day Wildfires
Just extraordinary. The winds at that time were THE STRONGEST EVER OBSERVED at the site during those months for any wind direction from the north, east, southeast, or northwest.
Virtue, Wherefore Art Thou Signal?
Harnessing the innovative spirit of California, Governor Gavin Newsom today advanced an executive order enlisting California’s vast network of natural and working lands – forests, rangelands, farms, wetlands, coast, deserts…
Global Warming Drives Wildfires Study–Ignores Pre 1979 Data
Reposted from Not A Lot of People Know That By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Climate change is driving the scale and impact of recent wildfires that have raged in…
Did Global Warming Play A Significant Role in the Recent Northwest Wildfires?
Did global warming (a.k.a. climate change) have a significant impact on the Northwest wildfires of the past few weeks?
‘Climate arson’ and other wildfire nonsense
The lesson? Regardless of what Earth’s climate may do – regardless of who or what may be responsible for any fluctuations – we must take responsible, appropriate, effective measures now.…
California’s Creek Fire Creates Its Own Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud
“The pyrocumulonimbus cloud created aerosol index values indicate that this is one of the largest (if not the largest) pyroCb events seen in the United States,” according to Dr. Colin…
Multiple Fires Ignited, Major Dust Storm Develops, Tens of Thousands Out of Power, and I-90/US 2 Closed By Winds in Eastern Washington
Strong winds, gusting to 50-70 mph, has caused a dust storm that has closed major roads in eastern Washington (e.g., I-90 and US-2). Here is a recent satellite image, with…
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