Tornado Alley (PROG)

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from your fabrication source:

Aren’t wildfires getting worse?


Spanish researchers confirmed climate change not to blame for increased forest fires. “The change in the occurrence of fires that are recorded in the historical research cannot be explained by the gradual change in climate,” they reported. Instead, it “corresponds to changes in the availability of fuel, the use of sources of energy and the continuity of the landscape.” In the United States, wildfires are also due to a failure to thin forests or remove dead and diseased trees – due largely to environmentalist protests and lawsuits.

Good grief... "Spanish researchers"? who the hell are they and what is their evidence? More like another Koch colonoscopy source, which is to you the mother ship i guess. Yes, the fuelbeds are in worse condition than they have been for awhile, but when you point to 50 years ago, as you did, at that time logging slash was hip deep on millions of acres, mostly due to unregulated logging on private land that was clearcut and abandoned. but if the present fuelbeds weren't dryer than a popcorn fart, they wouldn't burn. Overprotection of forests that are dynamic in nature contribute to wildfire intensity, but when the weather is cooler and moister, fire intensity is low and one can have a 100,000 acre fire that does minimal damage, in fact, is how the forests evolved here, and is the natural selective pressure. Hotter and drier summers mean fires burn hotter, outside the ecological amplitude so they do major damage and take out whole landscapes. And if you hadn't noticed, the summers haven't been cooler and moister in the west as a trend.

Your trying to deflect your blatant lies and distortions with a blast of "questions" from your soapbox files is really pretty comical.