{"id":338324,"date":"2024-08-02T17:28:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=338324"},"modified":"2024-08-02T17:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:28:23","slug":"the-new-york-times-is-clueless-when-it-comes-to-climate-and-the-parkfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=338324","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Is Clueless When It Comes to Climate and the #ParkFire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"338334\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=338334\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/08b125cf76de4552c37d35598e2e1601a-1024x576-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,576\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0,8b125cf76de4552c37d35598e2e1601a-1024&amp;#215;576\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/08b125cf76de4552c37d35598e2e1601a-1024x576-1.jpg?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/08b125cf76de4552c37d35598e2e1601a-1024x576-1.jpg?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-338334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/08b125cf76de4552c37d35598e2e1601a-1024x576-1.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/08b125cf76de4552c37d35598e2e1601a-1024x576-1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/08b125cf76de4552c37d35598e2e1601a-1024x576-1.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2024\/08\/once-again-the-new-york-times-is-clueless-when-it-comes-to-climate-and-the-park-fire\/\">ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/author\/awatts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"349\" data-attachment-id=\"338326\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=338326\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-53.png?fit=624%2C349&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"624,349\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-53.png?fit=624%2C349&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-53.png?resize=624%2C349&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-338326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-53.png?w=624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-53.png?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Park fire Pyrocumulus cloud, seen from Highway 149 looking north, at 3:38PM on July 26, 2024. Photo by Anthony Watts.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>(NYT), in a July 30<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;story titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/30\/climate\/park-fire-california-heat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>How Did the Park Fire Get So Big, So Fast?\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/a>claims that \u201c[h]eat has been breaking records all summer, and Dr. Williams said records will probably continue to fall over the next several years as the burning of fossil fuels continues to add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is false. The article itself provides no data or citations to support this claim but rather relies on opinions from so-called climate experts who have no hands-on connection to the fire whatsoever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having spent 35 years in Chico, CA, the Park fire is one of three recent wildfires with which I have personal hands-on and boots on the ground experience. The other two were the Camp Fire in 2018, and the Dixie fire in 2021. All these fires affected me personally and the people around me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet somehow NYT and their bevy of so-called experts think they can divine the cause and conditions that drove these fires from their offices from afar. In each case, NYT has blamed climate change as either a driver or contributor to these three fires without so much as a shred of proof. In fact, NYT contradicts their own claims in their article in the table of the top ten fires in California by acreage burned:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"427\" data-attachment-id=\"338328\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=338328\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-54.png?fit=624%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"624,427\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-54.png?fit=624%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-54.png?resize=624%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-338328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-54.png?w=624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-54.png?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate change isn\u2019t listed as a cause in&nbsp;<em>any of them<\/em>. However, that doesn\u2019t stop the \u201cexperts\u201d they interviewed for the story to try making a climate connection where none exists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">July 22, two days before the fire began, was Earth\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/earth\/nasa-data-shows-july-22-was-earths-hottest-day-on-record\/#:~:text=Goddard%20Digital%20Team&amp;text=July%2022%2C%202024%2C%20was%20the,record%2C%20set%20in%20July%202023.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hottest day on record<\/a>. June was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climate.copernicus.eu\/copernicus-june-2024-marks-12th-month-global-temperature-reaching-15degc-above-pre-industrial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the 13th consecutive month<\/a>&nbsp;to break a global heat record. Some areas burned by the Park fire saw their single-hottest 30-day periods on record just before the blaze broke out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Williams compared the dry conditions to those preceding California\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/28\/us\/park-fire-california-oregon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second-largest wildfire<\/a>, the 2021 Dixie fire, which began during a drought and burned almost one million acres. The state has since emerged from drought, which makes the heat\u2019s effect on fuels even more notable, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was an exceptional heat wave, and an exceptional drying of the vegetation,\u201d said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at U.C.L.A. and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Wetter winters led to less-severe fire seasons in 2022 and 2023. But extreme heat this summer, with more hot weather in the forecast, means \u201cwe\u2019ve kiln-dried all that extra fuel,\u201d Dr. Swain said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Park fire was started by arson,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2024\/7\/24\/park-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to Cal Fire<\/a>. The dry vegetation that allowed it to burn so quickly had a very clear fingerprint of climate change, Dr. Swain said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By my observations, this sort of&nbsp;<em>causality&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeeandjunk.com\/common-logical-fallacies\/#:~:text=Shoehorning,in%20which%20they%20already%20believe.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>shoehorning<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(to coin a phrase) is becoming increasingly common among journalists and climate advocates as they strain to fit any weather event or catastrophe into the climate change narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swain\u2019s claim of \u201ca very clear fingerprint of climate change\u201d on dry vegetation that fueled the Park fire is little more than his personal opinion. He offers no scientific citation or basis for his claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there was indeed a heat wave prior to the Park fire, that had no bearing on the fire at all. The area where the fire ignited, Butte County California and the most-burned area in Tehama County are not in drought conditions according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/data\/png\/20240723\/20240723_ca_text.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Drought Monitor for July 23<sup>rd<\/sup><\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 the day before the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicoer.com\/2024\/07\/29\/da-arson-suspect-reportedly-heavily-intoxicated-before-fire-ignition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Park fire was ignited by a criminal arsonist<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"455\" height=\"352\" data-attachment-id=\"338330\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=338330\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-56.png?fit=455%2C352&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"455,352\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-56.png?fit=455%2C352&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-56.png?resize=455%2C352&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-338330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-56.png?w=455&amp;ssl=1 455w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-56.png?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So \u201cclimate change caused drought\u201d and resultant abnormally dry conditions didn\u2019t figure into the Park fire at all. The fire wouldn\u2019t exist without the criminal act of arson. I would not be surprised at if the next episode of&nbsp;<em>causality shoehorning<\/em>&nbsp;is a story claiming \u201cClimate Change Causes More Arsonists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arson ignition point, in Chico\u2019s Bidwell Park, is in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Just to the north of that point huge acreages of grassland and scrub brush exist. Combine that ignition with the sustained southerly winds that day of 20-25 mph, and it is no surprise that the fire rapidly spread north.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rick-carhart-ba627151\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rick Carhart, the Public Information Officer for CalFire in Butte County<\/a>&nbsp;and a Chico resident for decades, confirmed in a telephone interview that the area \u201chad not naturally burned in several decades, and had no control burns to reduce fuel loads.\u201d He added that these \u201chigh fuel loads, combined with the wind that day made a very aggressive fire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate change contributed nothing to the actual circumstances or rapid spread of the fire \u2013 local weather and a criminal act are at fault. The drying of grasses (which happens every spring) and the heat wave (which happens every summer) are both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-weather-vs-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weather patterns which operate on short-term time scales as opposed to long-term climate change.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My colleague, Heartland Institute research fellow Linnea Lueken,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2022\/10\/sacramento-bee-your-wildfire-emissions-story-misses-large-decline-in-wildfires-amid-modest-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published a scathing factual rebuttal last year<\/a>&nbsp;of a case with&nbsp;<em>The Sacramento Bee<\/em>&nbsp;making similar but baseless claims like the NYT when they attempted to connect climate change to wildfires and their natural drivers, such as lightning. She writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-weather-vs-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no climate signal<\/a>, nor increasing trend, behind thunderstorms, or lightning occurrences. Also,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/145421\/building-a-long-term-record-of-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA satellites have documented a global long-term decline<\/a>&nbsp;in wildfires. NASA reports satellites have measured a 25-percent decrease in global lands burned since 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Examining wildfires in California in particular, research shows massive wildfires have regularly swept through the state. Indeed, a 2007&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0378112707004379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paper in the journal&nbsp;<em>Forest Ecology and Management<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;reported that prior to European colonization in the 1800s, more than 4.4 million acres of California forest and shrub-land burned annually. As compared to the 4.4 million California acres that burned each year prior to European colonization, only 90,000 acres to 1.6 million California acres burn in a typical year now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clearly, there is no climate change driving component to California wildfires at all. If there were, fires in the present would be consuming much more than 4.4 million acres annually \u2013 but this isn\u2019t happening. The simple fact is,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2021\/12\/leftist-arsonists-are-responsible-for-more-wildfires-than-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arsonists Are Responsible for More Wildfires than Climate Change<\/a>. The intensity and coverage of wildfire varies greatly from year to year, as evidenced by the 2022 NYT story,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/12\/20\/climate\/california-wildfire-season-2022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why California\u2019s 2022 Wildfire Season Was Unexpectedly Quiet.<\/a>&nbsp;A map of fires from year to year in the article demonstrates this well:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"207\" data-attachment-id=\"338332\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=338332\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-57.png?fit=624%2C207&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"624,207\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-57.png?fit=624%2C207&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-57.png?resize=624%2C207&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-338332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-57.png?w=624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-57.png?resize=300%2C100&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, in that article they can\u2019t resist blaming climate change, only providing cherry-picked data back to 1990 to bolster their claim, while completely ignoring the huge fires of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NYT believes, like some sort of diagnostic remote \u201ctelemedicine\u201d call, that they and their experts can divine the climate connections to the fire from offices in New York and from so called \u201cclimate experts\u201d sitting in their offices elsewhere who know better about what is going on than people with boots on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a shameful and obvious demonstration that the NYT cares more about furthering the climate agenda, than they do about reporting the facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times (NYT), in a July 30th story titled \u201cHow Did the Park Fire Get So Big, So Fast?\u201d claims that \u201c[h]eat has been breaking records all summer, and Dr. Williams said records will probably continue to fall over the next several years as the burning of fossil fuels continues to add greenhouse gases to the 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