> Fires happened all the time in the last million years No offense, but this sounds awfully like the "temperature rises occurred before" rhetoric, while ignor

> Fires happened all the time in the last million years No offense, but this sounds awfully like the "temperature rises occurred before" rhetoric, while ignoring magnitude[0] Yes forest fires can be natural, but for this specific one, another comment upthread mentioned it potentially being linked to a history of illegal logging. The melting of the polar cap has been documented fairly thoroughly, and I already mentioned the existence of studies about extreme weather. We know for fact that there's a strong relationship between our polluting ways and arctic ice melting, and that there's a relationship between that and extreme weather events. Hopefully it shouldn't take a PhD to figure out irresponsible human-made logging fires + record high temperatures are a recipe for disaster(tm) Personally, I think we're a little past the "show us the data" territory. "Seriously, WTF?" might be more in order at this point. [0] https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/