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The Wildfire Myth: Historical Data Debunks Climate’s Role – How cost headlines replaced wildfire measurements, & why the bills keep rising even when burn area doesn’t

https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/the-wildfire-myth-historical-data DR. MATTHEW WIELICKI Summer’s End, Wildfire Headlines Keep Coming   As we approach the end of summer 2025, wildfire season is winding down across much of North America… though, as history shows, devastating fires can strike even in winter, like Southern California’s Palisades Fire. This seasonal lull offers a moment to reflect on the […]

Climate Fact-Check August 2025: Debunking the latest unscientific fearmongering on hurricanes, wildfires, the Great Barrier Reef, ‘heat stress’, doomed bananas, & the alleged invasion of fire ants!

Climate Fact-Check August 2025 by: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate. Editor’s note: This summary serves as a fact check on the top false claims made about climate change by the […]

Stop Promoting Attribution Studies, Associated Press, Europe’s Wildfires Aren’t Worsening

Stop Promoting Attribution Studies, Associated Press, Europe’s Wildfires Aren’t Worsening By Linnea Lueken The Associated Press (AP), via ABC News, claims that climate change is responsible for the intensity of European wildfires in a story titled “Climate change made deadly wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus more fierce, study finds.” This is false. Data show […]

Bjorn Lomborg: ‘The world is burning less, not more’ – ‘Satellite data shows that burn has declined this century’ – ‘2025 is on track for lowest burn in 21st century’ – Burned area globally ‘has likely declined since 1900’

The world is burning less, not more Contrary to standard climate narrative Satellite data shows that burn has declined this century 2025 is on track for lowest burn in 21st century And historical reconstruction shows that burned area has likely declined since 1900… https://t.co/n3xabTtQpG pic.twitter.com/S3rvlW9S6k — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) September 3, 2025

Meteorlogist on Calif wildfires: ‘Increased population = increased fire ignitions & the introduction of highly-flammable, non-native plant species…power lines get toppled in Santa Ana Winds’ — But let’s blame ‘climate change’?!

In regard to SoCal wildfires, what do you think is going to happen when you pack 25 million people who want to live where it is sunny for 9 months of the year into one area? Rhetorical question, but I’ll go ahead and answer it anyway. Increased population = increased fire… pic.twitter.com/MolHEOROkb — Chris Martz […]

Climate Lockdowns: ‘COVID was the rehearsal…Climate is the show’ – Canadians banned from ‘walk in the woods’ for their own safety?!

https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/climate-lockdowns DR. MATTHEW WIELICKI Excerpt: This month, Canadians learned that a walk in the woods could cost more than a speeding ticket. Nova Scotia barred hiking, biking, fishing, and even picnics on forested land and advertised fines up to $25,000 for violators. https://halifax.citynews.ca/2025/08/06/several-25000-fines-issued-for-violating-burn-bans-says-natural-resources/ New Brunswick shut the public out of Crown land for “safety.” Newfoundland and Labrador […]

Et tu, California? Orange County Register:  ‘Californians sour on green policies’ – ‘Just 40% said they were willing to pay more for electricity generated by renewable sources’

https://www.ocregister.com/2025/08/05/californians-sour-on-green-policies/ BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD Exceprt: In the abstract, people will support all manner of vague policy proposals. But for many of those same people, what matters most is the obvious follow-up question: Are you willing to pay for it? The Public Policy Institute of California recently highlighted an example of mismatched responses from a […]

Climate Change Is Not to Blame for the Rising Costs of Natural Disasters, NBC

Climate Change Is Not to Blame for the Rising Costs of Natural Disasters, NBC By H. Sterling Burnett An NBC New story reports on the rising costs of natural disasters, citing an analysis from one of the world’s largest re-insurers, Munich Re. For the most part, the story is accurate, detailing the high costs of […]