Crushing The 'Blame Climate Change For Wildfires' Narrative In 1 Simple Chart
by Tyler Durden
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 18:55
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...1-simple-chart
Two weeks ago, when Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proclaimed:
"I've heard the climate change argument back and forth," Zinke told the Sacramento-based KCRA.
"This has nothing to do with climate change. This has to do with active forest management."
The virtue-signaling back-lash was deafening, and
yet contained little to no actual scientific evidence that 'climate change' had done anything to exacerbate this year's wildfire situation.
And then just last week, much to the chagrin of the mainstream media, politicians, and environmental advocacy groups
who swing their "climate change" hammer at every statistical anomaly, claiming that anthropogenic global warming has created a new regime of fires and smoke
that has never been experienced before, University of Washington veteran climate scientist Cliff Mass posted on his blog that
"those making such claims are seriously misinformed."....
....And the pattern for the entire US is the same. As Bloomberg reports, giant wildfires of the sort tormenting California and other Western states this summer are
not a new thing. Wildfires appear to have been
far more widespread in the 19th and early 20th centuries than they are now....
...In fact, the number of acres burned early in the 20th century
absolutely dwarfs when are experiencing recently. If only they hadn't driven so many SUVs in the 1920s??...