Hot, dry weather
doesn’t cause wildfires.
It just makes them worse.
Most important is "dry".
California is seasonally dry.
A few tenths of a degree of
global warming would make
almost no difference.
President Trump
stated the primary
reason the
2018 wildfires
were so large,
and difficult
to put out.
As usual,
CA leftists
dismissed
everything
Trump said.
California wildfires
had nothing to do
with climate change.
California's wildfires
had everything to do
with public forests
that are not managed !
The authorities
just let them grow.
The forests are too thick.
Efforts to prevent fires,
and preserve forests,
have been too successful
— they disrupt the
ecological balance,
allowing too many
trees to grow.
Some California forests
have more than
1,000 trees per acre.
Overcrowded forests.
40 to 60 trees per acre
would be ideal.
Forests filled
with dead trees,
piles of logs,
and thickets
of small trees,
are perfect for
severe wildfires.
That's why wildfires
are getting bigger,
and more destructive.
The thickest forest, or the
oldest chaparral, is the most
dangerous environment
for a catastrophic fire.
Stupid politicians will spend money
to fight wildfires, but ignore forest
management, needed to reduce
the fuel for future fires.
Stupid politicians will also blame
climate change, when the real problem
is the lack of forest management.
Thinning dangerously overcrowded
forests will prevent fires, and / or
make them easier to put out.
California is also losing forests
on federally owned land,
at an average rate of
about 26,000 acres per year,
because of no replanting
after catastrophic forest fires.