As David Kreutzer writes on RealClearEnergy, the recent wildfires in California have more to do with poor forest management than climate change.
“Even if a one-degree-warmer world led to warmer West Coast forests, the high intensity of the recent wildfires can’t be attributed to air temperatures being 109 degrees instead of 108. The much bigger problem is fuel loading—the amount of dead wood and other organic matter on forest floors, compounded by a higher density of small trees.”
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