Climate change is not the reason for the rise of wildfires

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Climate change is not the reason for the rise of wildfires

By Bjorn Lomborg
August 1, 2023

One of the most common tropes in our increasingly alarmist climate debate is that global warming has set the world on fire.

But it hasn’t.

For more than two decades, satellites have recorded fires across the planet’s surface.

The data are unequivocal: Since the early 2000s, when 3% of the world’s land caught fire, the area burned annually has trended downward.

In 2022, the last year for which there are complete data, the world hit a record low of 2.2% burned area.

Yet you’ll struggle to find that reported anywhere.

Flaming blips
Instead, the media acts as if the world is ablaze.

In late 2021, The New York Times employed more than 40 staff on a project called “Postcards From a World on Fire,” headed by a photorealistic animation of the world in flames.

Its explicit goal was to convince readers of the climate crisis’ immediacy through a series of stories of climate-change-related devastation across the world, including the 2019-20 wildfires in Australia.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/climate-change-is-not-the-reason-for-the-rise-of-wildfires/