wildfires, Tag

If climate change isn’t causing worsening wildfire seasons, then it can’t increase the threat to farm workers from wildfire smoke – it’s that simple.

Note: This is a reprint of my op-ed “Editor for a Day” in the Chico Enterprise-Record, complete with links and graphs to factual references for the benefit of readers there…

If we are to deal effectively with the forest fire issue it is imperative that we get the foundational data correct first so we can develop effective strategies to deal with this major threat to mankind.

What makes these fires bigger has a lot to do with how we've mismanaged the landscapes for the last 100 years. Fire suppression, changes in grazing patterns, loss of wetlands. We allow shrub lands and grasses to build up...

It is a shameful and obvious demonstration that the NYT cares more about furthering the climate agenda, than they do about reporting the facts.

Egregious cherry-picking by alarmist climate scientists attempts to delude the public into believing that a slight increase in wildfire burnt acres can be blamed on rising CO2.

A major utility provider cut power in certain areas of California on Tuesday morning to address wildfire risks.

t simply appears that the mainstream media didn’t bother to look because they prefer to push a scary narrative about climate change rather than do the job they have been charged with...

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.

... if there is more vegetation to burn, it might burn more.

ProPublica simply failed to do basic research, relying on opinion and storytelling instead of factual reporting to weave yet another misleading story where climate change is blamed as part of the ongoing narrative told by...

SCIENCE®!!!! discovers what my dad (a civil engineer) taught me more than 50 years ago.

Lahaina was a disaster ready to happen.   A human-caused disaster.  Large areas of highly flammable invasive grasses were just east of Lahaina.  Grasses growing in abandoned farmland.

Another highly deceptive and error-filled climate story in the ST.  One predicting more than a doubling of wildfires over western Washington and Oregon by mid-century.

Although a 20-year period of a drier climate associated with La Nina-like conditions will dry out the biggest dead logs, so they more easily burn, changes in wildfire frequency and burnt area extent, have absolutely nothing...