Conspicuously missing from this piece is that the major reason[1] California fires are so bad now is that they were artificially suppressed for the last century

Conspicuously missing from this piece is that the major reason[1] California fires are so bad now is that they were artificially suppressed for the last century. California is repaying the debts of a hundred years of nicer-than-natural summers. [1] This is not a climate-change-denialist position. For example, Scott Stephens, Professor of Environmental Science at UC Berkeley, recently said this: >I think climate change is no more than 20 to 25% responsible for our current fire problems in the state, and most of it is due to the way our forests are. Source: https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/08/09/how-wildfire-restored-a-yosemite-watershed/ https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/08/09/how-wildfire-restored-a...