{"id":364101,"date":"2025-01-31T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T07:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364101"},"modified":"2025-01-31T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T07:01:41","slug":"bbcs-fake-wildfire-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364101","title":{"rendered":"BBC\u2019s Fake Wildfire\u00a0Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Ian Magness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC PEDDLE FAKE WILDFIRE CLAIMS<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climate establishment are going to great lengths to blame the Los Angeles fires on global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One attempt has already bitten the dust, with claims of increasing winter droughts contradicted by the real world data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So another team of so-called scientists have come up with an even more ridiculous idea \u2013 that it is now both to wet and too dry in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC report:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change has made the grasses and shrubs that are fuelling the Los Angeles fires more vulnerable to burning, scientists say.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rapid swings between dry and wet conditions in the region in recent years have created a massive amount of tinder-dry vegetation that is ready to ignite.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decades of drought in California were followed by extremely heavy rainfall for two years in 2022 and 2023, but that then flipped again to very dry conditions in the autumn and winter of 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScientists\u201d say in a <\/em>new study, external<\/em><\/a> that climate change has boosted what they call these “whiplash” conditions globally by 31-66% since the middle of the 20th Century.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This whiplash sequence in California has increased fire risk twofold,” said lead author Daniel Swain from UCLA.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“First, by greatly increasing the growth of flammable grass and brush in the months leading up to fire season, and then by drying it out to exceptionally high levels with the extreme dryness and warmth that followed.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0ewe4p9128o<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again though the actual data shows the new study to be just as fake as the previous one. Most of California\u2019s rain comes in the winter half, October to March; the last two years have been wetter than average, but no more so than many other years on record:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The same applies to the South Coast Drainage Division, which includes Los Angeles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Neither is there any evidence of bigger swings from year to year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Brown of the Breakthrough Institute has written a full scientific rebuttal here<\/a>, which demolishes this latest fake science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is his summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

So, let\u2019s recap. At the annual timescale that is most relevant to the Los Angeles fires\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n