{"id":396953,"date":"2025-08-22T10:11:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=396953"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:11:47","slug":"the-truth-behind-britains-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=396953","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Behind Britain\u2019s\u00a0Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 There\u2019s a lot to unpack here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the headline in the Guardian last week:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As usual with the Guardian, they are misinforming you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is the actual data from EFFIS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see, about three quarters of the wildfire area to date occurred in February and March, which as we know were very dry months this year. Clearly however this cannot be blamed on climate change because the Met Office keep telling us that winters are supposed to be getting wetter as a result!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But more to the point, that big spike in the first week of April was accounted for by a series of gigantic fires in the Mountains of Mourne, believed to have been started deliberately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since that outbreak, nothing out of the ordinary has occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But behind all of this data, a real problem seems to be emerging, which has been picked up on X:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bloody idiotic urban bureaucrats.

For centuries, humans have burned moorland, it\u2019s called seasonal back-burning. It acts as a firebreak, keeping moors safe, clearing fuel and preventing wildfires.

In 2021, under Agenda 30 and \u2018Green\u2019 targets, a government quango banned it.\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/f6NHIPTutx<\/a><\/p>— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) August 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>