Washington Post, Here Is the Truth About California Wildfires
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H. Sterling Burnett -
October 23, 20200
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The Washington Post has published an article, “How Escalating Climate Change Fuels California’s Infernos,†that asserts false claims about climate change without providing any meaningful supporting evidence. Data indicate natural conditions and poor land management practices are the main causes of this year’s California wildfires. Climate change is not a factor.
The Post article asserts climate change is causing a “megadrought†in the southwestern United States that is “intensifying western wildfires.†According to the Post, these western wildfires made the wildfire years from 2000 to 2018 “the worst since the 16th century.†Real-world evidence, however, contradicts the claim.
The United States, including the southwestern United States, has not been experiencing record drought in recent years. As reported in Climate at a Glance: Drought, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports with “high confidence†that precipitation has increased over mid-latitude land areas of the Northern Hemisphere (including the United States) during the past 70 years. IPCC also has “low confidence†about any negative precipitation trends occurring globally.
https://climaterealism.com/2020/10/washington-post-here-is-the-truth-about-california-wildfires/
