The Climate Change fear-mongering of years and decades past has all but been exposed, since most of all the times "we have ten years left" have passed, I think its safe to say the science was not quite as settled as they would have us believe. This major loss of credibility in the scientific community I don't blame on scientists, the vast majority of those involved were usually grant funded and depended on political agendas if they wanted to keep their jobs and eat or secure funding. Politics fails and drags everything down with it. Science left without agenda's will always send man to the moon or internet to the palm of your hand.
The tenuous link between temperature posed at 1° of warming, which appears itself to be dubious, and a rampant alleged increase in forrest fires and "OMG we are all going to die" conclusions are so childishly clear to be infested with agendas that you would need to not be able to see the wood for the burned down trees to miss it.
The data simply does not support this claim.
Let's start with insurance claims and assessments.
https://www.verisk.com/insurance/visualize/key-findings-from-the-2017-verisk-wildfire-risk-analysis/?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=VeriskSM&utm_content=842017
https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-wildfires
What about the recent past?Turns out not, apparently they were even worse during cool periods, notably the little ice age.
http://landscapesandcycles.net/forest-fires-were-worse-during-the-little-ice-age.html
And far greater fires on a scale we could scarcely comprehend have burned their way into recent history.
https://www.fireengineering.com/articles/2007/10/remembering-the-great-peshtigo-fire-of-1871.html?fbclid=IwAR20LcmhWQH1kiGPHH0GsnE5Y9aVNyIe1OuRFMH-CAsTqtd5KWBT7jjHV5Q
A thorough analysis of number of fires, acres burned, frequency, over various timeframe and timescales reveals no causal relationship between warming on any level and fires. In fact some correlation actually suggests the reverse, but I chalk i up to coincidence. There is even suggestion fires are decreasing but again, I prefer to chalk small changes down to cycles. It is disengenuous to pass off small trend variations as scientific findings. Doing so makes us no better that the Climate Change fraternity.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4874420/
The Media certainly does their fair share of fear-mongering, not only because the six multinational behemoth conglomerates left are ideologically aligned with globalist agendas, but because fear SELLS.
Lets not forget that the vast majority of fires are started in one way or the other by humans, so already the variables are far from the parameters required to satisfy the scientific method.
https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm
