WRITTEN BY H. STERLING BURNETT ON FEB 24, 2022. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Media Spread UN Report’s False Claim That Wildfires Are Growing, Worsening
A firestorm, pun fully intended, erupted as dozens of mainstream media outlets, large and small, tou panted a report this week from a team of researchers associated with the United Nations claiming wildfires are on the rise due to climate change. This is false. [bold, links added]
Data show conclusively wildfires have declined dramatically over the past century even as the Earth has modestly warmed.
The BBC, PBS, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and Health Day were among the dozens of media outlets uncritically parroting the claims made by a team of researchers that wildfire seasons are worsening due to climate change.
The stories also all uniformly claim that unless something is done to lessen future climate change, wildfires will be more frequent and intense in the future.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/media-spread-un-reports-false-claim-that-wildfires-are-growing-worsening/
