Media Misses the Real Reason for Catastrophic Western Wildfires
By
Anthony Watts -
September 24, 2021 1
Many media outlets are blaming “climate change” for the increased number of wildfires in the western United States the last two years. For example, this article from Vox: “The West is burning. Climate change is making it worse.”
Such a headline has become typical in recent years. Climate change has become the new universal boogeyman, applied as the cause of almost anything. For example, “animals are shrinking. Blame climate change.” Climate change has been used as the reason for shrinking crop yields, glaciers, fish, and even shrinking the planet.
When it comes to wildfires, climate change is supposedly making them larger, more catastrophic, and more frequent. Often, those stories also have a social agenda attached; we need to drive less, eat less, fly less, and buy less stuff to avoid the looming boogeyman of climate change.
But data, which doesn’t have any agenda, tell an entirely different story. More on that below.
https://climaterealism.com/2021/09/media-misses-the-real-reason-for-catastrophic-western-wildfires/
