Many in the news media have misled people to think that climate change is causing California’s high-intensity fires but this video proves that good forest management prevents them, even during unusually hot and dry years like the one we are in https://t.co/oHUAy6t8Bl
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) August 23, 2021
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) August 23, 2021
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) August 23, 2021
“Climate dries the [wood] fuels out & extends the fire season but it’s not the cause of the intensity of the fires,” said US Forest Service scientist Malcolm North. “The cause of that is fire suppression and the existing debt of wood fuel.”https://t.co/gV8B0jzIve
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) August 23, 2021
Some journalists are gradually starting to eat crow on this issuehttps://t.co/HcKxTYzINA
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) August 23, 2021
As California Gov. @GavinNewsom was attacking Trump & Republicans as climate deniers, he was actually cutting the budget for forest fire prevention.
The result was a *halving* of the area treated for fire by Cal-Firehttps://t.co/zAaizZZZDa
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) August 23, 2021
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1430348369935814658
People say climate change is causing forest fires, but Florida proves that good forest management trumps a few degrees higher temperature
Now, “Western states are moving to adopt the fire policies pioneered by Florida,” reports @lesommer @NPR
Finallyhttps://t.co/pMmP2s3lVJ
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) August 31, 2021
