By Paul Homewood
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/shock-news-its-hot-in-portugal/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-8f0357f9-9013-4567-8407-be938c8c70cf
For the past couple of years, the BBC and the rest of the media have banging the drum about Mediterranean wildfires, claiming that they are now much worse than ever before thanks to climate change.
The full data has now been published by the EU, and it proves you have been lied to!
Last year the burnt area was only average, and the year before was nothing exceptional either:
The wildfires were bad last year in Greece, but they were far worse in 2007. But long term trends are not increasing, and most years in the last decade have recorded low levels of fire activity, compared to the 1980s and 90s.
SOURCES
1) Data up to 2020: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/burnt-forest-area-in-five-4/#tab-chart_5
2) Data since 2020: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/88bc1891-f6f6-11ee-a251-01aa75ed71a1
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