Climate Change Myths Part 2: Wildfires, Drought, Rising Sea Level, and Coral Reefs
21 hours ago Charles Rotter 32 Comments
John Stossel
More climate change myths need debunking.
There’s so much the alarmists get wrong!
Climate Change Will Make Earth a Living Hell
A living hell? Give me a break! Our last video debunked some hysterical claims about our warming climate, but there are more. Here’s myth #4.
Across the world, climate change is worsening droughts. Droughts are absolutely not getting worse. Heartland research fellow Linnea Lueken studies extreme weather. The media loves to share stories when there is a major drought somewhere, some very specific location. More of the Northeast is now under extreme drought conditions. But here’s the thing: They will completely ignore previous years where there were record low amounts of drought. Every single individual drought that occurs in the United States or anywhere in the world is not evidence of catastrophic climate change. It’s weather.
Globally, there’s been no increase in drought, and in the US, the EPA acknowledges, the last 50 years have been wetter than average. Drought was way worse in the 1930s. [dust storm] It sure was. Then, part of America was called the “Dust Bowl.” The Dust Bowl belongs on the list of the top 3, 4, or 5 environmental catastrophes in world history.
But somehow, silly people at NBC news now cite climate change as the reason for California wildfires. Historic drought is the perfect fuel for these epic conditions. [fire burning] But it’s climate change creating infernos larger than ever. Definitely not larger than ever, there’s been a modest uptick since the 1980s. But the early 1980s also happen to be the lowest recorded wildfire years in US wildfire history. The alarmists like to start their comparisons during those record low years. This graph shows the increase in the area burnt by fires in the US since 1983. This chart does make it look like wildfires are increasing. But go back just a little further, and you see fires in the past burned much more.
Still: It is warmer now, and that plays a part. One degree of change does not dry out all of the brush in California. The real driver of these issues is mostly going to come down to land management. [chainsaw] [tree falling] Bad land management. California restricts clear cutting—removing most trees in an area—and they don’t let small fires burn. This is the overgrowth that’s been accumulating in these forests for the past century because people have been putting out fires instead of letting them burn, the way they naturally used to. [fire] So, fires grow bigger. And affect more people, not because of climate change, but because: There’s more suburban sprawl. Meaning there are more people out grilling and knocking their Weber over when they’re trying to make hamburgers or whatever and causing grass fires.
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