Analysis: To stop wildland fires, forestry, not climate policy, is the priority – ‘Temperature & precipitation data show a poor correlation to the intensity of fire seasons’ in Washington state
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/to-stop-wildland-fires-forestry-not-climate-policy-is-the-priority By TODD MYERS Smoke from forest fires filled the air in Western Washington and immediately the finger of blame was pointed at climate change. Prior to the recent fires, the 2020 fire season had been extremely quiet. No matter how the season ends, however, blaming climate change is politics, not science. Not all the lands […]
Climate Reparations: Companies to be liable for emissions ‘harm’ ‘going back to the 1800s’
Speaking at the American Constitution Society, leading climate change trial lawyer Matthew Pawa says that heat waves, melting snow pack, and loss of glaciers is harming human health and that people and states will want compensation. Pawa states that thanks to new peer reviewed literature, climate change litigators can now “demonstrate how much of the […]