CNN Publishes Blatantly False Claim About Wildfires – There’s No Link to Fossil Fuels at All
By Anthony Watts -May 24, 20230
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A May 16, 2023 article by CNN reporter Rachel Ramirez titled, “More than a third of the area charred by wildfires in Western North America can be traced back to fossil fuels, scientists find” claims that fossil fuel companies are directly responsible for a third of wildfires in the western U.S. and Canada. This claim is easily disproven by real-world data. Data show no correlation between wildfire acreage burned and CO2 produced from the burning of fossil fuel products.
The CNN article references a questionable study from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) – a politically oriented climate activist organization who by their own admission, say “We use science to make change happen.” For the UCS science is not a tool to produce knowledge, but rather a lever political change.
Unfortunately, CNN was unable to discern this difference and treated the UCS press release as if it was actual science, rather than politically motivated climate activism disguised as science.
Reporting from the press release, CNN wrote:
https://climaterealism.com/2023/05/cnn-publishes-blatantly-false-claim-about-wildfires-theres-no-link-to-fossil-fuels-at-all/
