David
2020.09.17 00:31
Well if you're chalking up the wildfires exclusively to climate change then you're ignoring some important facts.
Here are the numbers. ProPublica reports, "California alone saw the burning of 4.4 million to 11 million acres per year prehistorically; between 1999 and 2017, that number dropped to only 13,000 acres per year; in February 2020, Nature Sustainability concluded that California would need to burn some 20 million acres to restabilize in terms of fire".
Even California Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted to Trump that the state had botched its fire policy: "We have not done justice for our forest management."
So to be fair, climate change may have had some effect on the California wildfires, but that effect is entirely secondary when your policies are garbage...