Every time someone spouts off citing "climate change" as the cause for the west's numerous wildfires, shove this story under their noses. It's a cause my cousin, who has a degree in Forestry, has been lamenting for over 20 years. Environmental policies that prevent clearing out deadfall and fallen leavess and needles is providing fuel for wildfires, often causes by lightening. This is just another boneheaded progressive policy that is making things worse rather than better.
"...A seventy-word primer: We dug ourselves into a deep, dangerous fuel imbalance due to one simple fact. We live in a Mediterranean climate that’s designed to burn, and we’ve prevented it from burning anywhere close to enough for well over a hundred years. Now climate change has made it hotter and drier than ever before, and the fire we’ve been forestalling is going to happen, fast, whether we plan for it or not.
Megafires, like the ones that have ripped this week through 1 million acres (so far), will continue to erupt until we’ve flared off our stockpiled fuels. No way around that. .."
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