{"id":272027,"date":"2023-08-07T18:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=272027"},"modified":"2023-08-07T18:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:24:31","slug":"right-wall-street-journal-wildfires-are-declining-as-climate-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=272027","title":{"rendered":"Right, Wall Street Journal, Wildfires Are Declining as Climate Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0H. Sterling Burnett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Writing in the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0(WSJ), Bjorn Lomborg, Ph.D., discusses the fact that, despite near constant media reports to the contrary, amid recent modest warming the number of wildfires and the acreage lost to them has declined dramatically over the past few decades. Lomborg is right, as data cited in dozens of\u00a0Climate Realism<\/em>\u00a0stories in the past few years have consistently shown. Globally, the number and scope of wildfires have fallen sharply from earlier decades and centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the WSJ article \u201cClimate Change Hasn\u2019t Set the World on Fire<\/a>,\u201d Lomborg writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the most common tropes in our increasingly alarmist climate debate is that global warming has set the world on fire. But it hasn\u2019t. For more than two decades, satellites have recorded fires across the planet\u2019s surface. The data are unequivocal: Since the early 2000s, when 3% of the world\u2019s land caught fire, the area burned annually has trended downward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, the last year for which there are complete data, the world hit a new record-low of 2.2% burned area.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Lomborg is correct. As\u00a0Climate Realism<\/em>\u00a0has repeatedly discussed\u00a0here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, and\u00a0here<\/a>, for example, NASA\u2019s satellites have measured a 25 percent decrease in acreage lost to wildfires since 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what is true of the world as a whole is also true of\u00a0Canada<\/a>,\u00a0Australia<\/a>, and the\u00a0United States<\/a>, all regions discussed by Lomborg because the media has mispresented the scope and causes of wildfires there in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Lomborg notes, nowhere wildfires have recently been in the news can they honestly be attributed to climate change. By contrast, almost universally, changed forest management policies by governments and arson have significantly contributed to recent instances of large wildfires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid out of control and dishonest wildfire reporting burning up most newsrooms, the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0and Lomborg stand out as honest brokers shining a light on the truth about the decline in wildfires. Kudos to them for doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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H. Sterling Burnett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to directing The Heartland Institute’s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, Burett puts Environment & Climate News together, is the editor of Heartland’s Climate Change Weekly email, and the host of the Environment & Climate News Podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Globally, the number and scope of wildfires have fallen sharply from earlier decades and 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