WRITTEN BY ANTHONY WATTS ON MAR 12, 2022. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
‘Climate Change’ Isn’t Making It Harder To ‘Fight Fire With Fire’
wildfire containmentOf the stories playing the blame game on climate change this week is one from Brittany Peterson and Matthew Brown of the Associated Press (AP) titled Changing snowfall makes it harder to fight fire with fire.
Data shows the claim is completely baseless. [bold, links added]
In the article, the writers claim that it is harder to set “control burns” i.e., fires intentionally set to safely burn off debris piles and vegetation, which constitutes “excess fuel” that could fuel a catastrophic wildfire later.
“Western wildfires have become more volatile as climate change dries forests already thick with vegetation from years of intensive fire suppression. And the window for controlled burns is shrinking.”
Control burns are a worthwhile exercise in forest management, but the idea that these fires are now more difficult to set and manage due to “climate change” is false. First, let’s look at the issue of climate versus weather.
The article makes this claim:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/climate-change-isnt-making-it-harder-to-fight-fire-with-fire/
