Wildfire Data Undercuts Al Jazeera’s Claims Of Climate-Driven Pollution Surge
Empirical evidence shows wildfires and air pollution are declining, smoking Al Jazeera’s climate claims.
by Linnea Lueken September 12, 2025, 8:59 AM
Al Jazeera posted an article titled “Climate-change-driven wildfires increasing air pollution across globe: UN,” which claims that wildfires are becoming more frequent due to climate change, and so air pollution from their smoke is as well. [emphasis, links added]
This is false, and it’s telling that they framed it in this way.
Wildfires are not getting worse, according to satellite data, and so air pollution due to them is also not getting worse.
Al Jazeera reported that wildfire smoke “made significant contributions to air pollution last year, according to the United Nations’ weather and climate agency[.]” This may be true; wildfires do produce air pollution, but what they say next takes this story from factual to false:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/wildfires-air-pollution-decline-al-jazeera-climate-claims/
