Your summary of his comment is misleading because you omit his explanation of how both are true. > “Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003″. > It

Your summary of his comment is misleading because you omit his explanation of how both are true. > “Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003″. > It is correct that the total global area burned has OVERALL declined over the last decades, BUT this is incorrectly used to argue that climate change is not affecting wildfires. The overall decrease is largely due a substantial reduction in flammable vegetation in African grasslands arising from human land use changes.