>Wildfires are often the tragic manifestation of our global climate crisis. While we cannot be certain that is the case here, it seems likely that this global c

>Wildfires are often the tragic manifestation of our global climate crisis. While we cannot be certain that is the case here, it seems likely that this global crisis has struck close to home. Leading with political outrage and then immediately admitting there’s no basis to think so. Forest fires came long before people and will continue long after we are gone. It’s bad writing and basically propaganda to lead every article about natural events with some bit about climate change. You can’t link individual events to climate change. You might as well lead every article about a fire, flood, or hurricane with some pearl clutching about climate change. And anyway, the evidence is that well-meaning human attempts to control wildfires are driving the growth in severe wildfire, due to the accumulation of brush that naturally would burn off in small fires without human intervention. This is discussed extensively elsewhere in this thread.