We can’t blame wildfires on global warming–Booker

By Paul Homewood

Booker has a nice concise piece on the latest fires in California:

We can’t blame wildfires on global warming

Despite the best efforts of governor Jerry Brown of California, and a gaggle of Hollywood celebrities claiming that the state’s disastrous wildfires were caused by climate change, the facts, as usual, show otherwise.

Experts have pointed out that the number of homes the western US built in places at risk of fire has risen from 6,700 in 1940 to 6.7 million today. Millions more homes have been built in fire-vulnerable areas than were there in the days when people were more sensible about where they chose to live.

In addition, new “green” regulations have outlawed the creation of firebreaks, removing underbrush and all the old management practices designed to stop fires spreading. A graph from the neighbouring Oregon fire department shows that there has been no overall upward trend in forest fires, which reached their peak back in the Thirties, then fell dramatically. Only this year, as in California, have they again risen to record levels.

In London, meanwhile, a bunch of fanatical greenies can close Thames bridges to traffic to protest against climate change, while all over France traffic is brought to a halt by drivers angrily protesting against President Macron’s new “carbon taxes”. Whatever we like to think, the Rosbifs are not always more sensible than our French neighbours.

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