{"id":384353,"date":"2025-06-23T09:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=384353"},"modified":"2025-06-23T09:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:04:40","slug":"britain-is-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=384353","title":{"rendered":"Britain Is Burning!"},"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 Paul Kolk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Telegraph is banging the climate alarm drum again<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/gift\/b7e10a5043d4aa60<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The article proceeds to claim that \u201cBritain has already suffered a record number of wildfires in 2025, following one of the driest springs on record<\/em>\u201d, accompanied by a graph that only goes back to 2012!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It goes on to talk about the \u201cage of drastic climate change \u2013 and, specifically, persistent dry spells\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where do they get this drivel from? Dry spells in spring are no more persistent than in the past:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moreover, the Met Office keeps on forecasting wet winters, which would reduce the amount of dead or dormant gorse, heather, bracken and grass. What made the difference this year was a dry February, not the spring itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fire fighters regularly admit that the real issue has long been arson, deliberate or otherwise. People drive out to these moorlands in their millions on sunny days, something that was not possible a few decades ago. When there they often set fires going from portable BBQs and dropped cigarettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with a lot of these silly stories, it is only in the last few years that we have had the satellite technology to accurately map these fires. EFFIS, for instance, was implemented in 2003, making a nonsense of Telegraph claims that there were some years in the past with no fires at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no reason to resort to the climate bogeyman, and the Telegraph looks foolish for doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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