wildfires, Tag

ProPublica simply failed to do basic research, relying on opinion and storytelling instead of factual reporting to weave yet another misleading story where climate change is blamed as part of the ongoing narrative told by...

SCIENCE®!!!! discovers what my dad (a civil engineer) taught me more than 50 years ago.

Lahaina was a disaster ready to happen.   A human-caused disaster.  Large areas of highly flammable invasive grasses were just east of Lahaina.  Grasses growing in abandoned farmland.

Another highly deceptive and error-filled climate story in the ST.  One predicting more than a doubling of wildfires over western Washington and Oregon by mid-century.

Although a 20-year period of a drier climate associated with La Nina-like conditions will dry out the biggest dead logs, so they more easily burn, changes in wildfire frequency and burnt area extent, have absolutely nothing...

From THE DAILY SCEPTIC BY CHRIS MORRISON Writing in the Daily Telegraph last July, Suzanne Moore reported that the “world is on fire – and we can’t ignore it any longer”...

As noted, eucalyptus accounts for about a third of plantations. Is it any wonder these fires spread so rapidly nowadays.

The chart gives the lie to claims that wildfires are now much worse.

Clearly the author Stan Cox has no significant comprehension of climate data and climate history but prefers to simply regurgitate claims made in other publications as if they were fact.

One of the main contributing factors to the down year in overall US wildfire activity is the fact that it has been a mild year in California with the number of burned acres under 390,000 (as of 12/18).

Note: This editorial was originally in the queue to be published in a prominent newspaper, but the editor somehow forgot about it after I submitted it...

The best explanations then for regional upticks in fires are differences in forest management practices, arson, as well as improper maintenance of power lines in the case of California, or combinations of factors that...

This is a classic example of the overreliance on models (and now AI) in climate research, instead of actual data.

Republican Rep. Byron Donalds blamed “green new deal stuff” for the devastating wildfire in Maui, saying an electric company ignored “the basic things.”

But the country’s official wildfire statistics do not show this suspected trend.