The Patriot Post® · Wildfire-Climate Change Hubris

The mainstream media, we’re shocked to report, continue to promulgate a supposed link between global warming and wildfires. The Media Research Center found that “ABC, CBS and NBC connected ‘hundred-year forest fires’ and ‘periods of severe drought’ to climate change in 23 morning and evening shows between March 1 and June 1. They never questioned the hypothesis that these incidents were caused by climate change. Instead, reporters warned that ‘something is very dangerously happening with the weather,’ but scientific and historical evidence revealed that neither droughts nor fires are increasing due to man-made climate change.” Indeed, statistics don’t back up this claim. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, there were 47,579 fires in 2013 – the lowest number since 1984. Since the turn of the century, the trend has clearly been downward (there were 92,250 fires in 2000). Interestingly, there were well north of 200,000 fires in the years 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1981 – at the height of the ice age scare. More…