By Jo Nova

How many solar panels does it take to stop an arsonist?

For two weeks the global media circus has been blaming climate change for the fires in Greece. But finally, belatedly we find out it’s arson (again).

The way the Guardian reports this, it’s as if arsonists hit Greece every year, but this year was different because of “climate change.” So if your civilization has thrill-seekers running amok, laying waste to land and property, the problem is not law and order, unemployment, or a sense of community, it’s “coal fired power plants”.

Can we stop calling them wildfires when they are arson-made?

Thanks to NetZeroWatch

Helena Smith in The Guardian

Most of the 667 fires that have erupted across Greece in recent weeks were started “by human hand”, the country’s senior climate crisis official has said.

Kikilias said that, in certain places, blazes had broken out at numerous points in close proximity at the same time, suggesting the involvement of arsonists intent on spreading fires further.

Arsonists are not the problem children, climate change is:

He added: “The difference with other years were the weather conditions. Climate change, which yielded a historic and unprecedented heatwave, is here.

It was surprising The Guardian chose to report this given how silly it makes their fixation on blaming climate change look.  But they get to mention “climate” six more times, and “hottest on record” twice again. They don’t ask whether their own non-stop hyperbolic reporting of Fires, Fires, Fires, encourages the arsonists.  They don’t ask where the nation is going wrong, or why this news wasn’t announced earlier, which it obviously could have been. The Independent reported it four days ago. Greek officials must have known it long before that.

The worst fires are not the ones in the Sahara Desert or Death Valley — they’re where the fuel loads are —  especially when mixed with a civilization that is losing its way. Most of the important factors in wildfires are things climate models can’t predict — like wind, rain, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.