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The fires are a direct result of human-caused climate change. I’ve lived in Washington all my life and 2015 was the first year we got smoked out during the summ

• pixl97 6y ago
  Eh, right, this is why the North American west has a 100,000 year fire record? Climate change makes the problem worse, but the fact is fires are a natural part of the regional ecology. If we keep looking at fires as one problem with one cause, we will keep dying in fires and losing houses.
• jackhack 6y ago
  it's human-caused, all right. Just not in the way you are implying. The number of recent antifa firebugs being caught either actively setting fires or scouting along roads, matches in hand, might have some relation to this, don't you think? Ignoring the actual arrests, it's not a stretch to think the types that set urban fires might also do the same on a rural area. Look at a map of the fires. Isn't it interesting that most of these fires happen in close proximity to state highways and secondary roads and not in unpopulated rural areas? Not willing to admit the obvious? Then, let's go baack to your claim that it's due to climate. You should be able to describe the specific climate changes have occurred in the past 5 years to cause this dramatic increase in fires where the occurrence was rare, before. That should be an easy data point for you to call out. Or if that's too challenging, what specific climate variable must change to increase fire. Speculate, if you like. Educate us all. But I think Ockham's Razor applies here.