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In the video, it also says "climate change is real", "climate change has made things worse", and "CA warmed up by 3 deg in the last 50 years". And they blame th

In the video, it also says "climate change is real", "climate change has made things worse", and "CA warmed up by 3 deg in the last 50 years". And they blame the CA gov for stopping controlled fires in the last couple of years for no real reason that made this huge time bomb that we've experienced. There is nothing misleading in that.

dmoy 5y ago
> And they blame the CA gov for stopping controlled fires in the last couple of years This is what is crazy to me. Growing up in the Midwest, we always had controlled burns on extended family's rural farmland near forests, to prevent future wildfires. It was a regular occurrence Looking up how absolutely little CA does for controlled burns compared to the Midwest and Southeast was an insane eye opener to me. Florida alone does like 50x the amount of controlled burns than CA. Minnesota, which is tiny by comparison, does more controlled burns than CA (or at least used to within the last few years)
- sharkmerry 5y ago
  Minnesota is 50% of the land mass of California and 1/8 the population. easier to burn with less people affected CA, also is largely federal forests. Not sure how florida compares to that.
- etc-hosts 5y ago
  The multi year drought probably influences number of controlled burns in CA
burkaman 5y ago
I'd encourage you to read the fact check to understand why they described it as misleading: https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/climate-change-forest-management-and-several-other-causes-contribute-to-wildfire-severity-and-total-area-burned-in-the-western-united-states/ https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/climate-change-fores..., https://climatefeedback.org/responding-to-stossel-tv-video-on-our-rating-process/ https://climatefeedback.org/responding-to-stossel-tv-video-o...
- hartator 5y ago
  > Given that many pieces of content posted on Facebook can separately make the same claim, it is not necessary to create a separate claim review article for each post we rate. I mean they are admitting here that Stossel never made the claim they say he did. Then use all the rest of the article to stretch out that their interpretation of Stossel's "climate change has made things worse but" is actually the same "Not by climate change". Which is obviously untrue.

dmoy 5y ago

> And they blame the CA gov for stopping controlled fires in the last couple of years This is what is crazy to me. Growing up in the Midwest, we always had controlled burns on extended family's rural farmland near forests, to prevent future wildfires. It was a regular occurrence Looking up how absolutely little CA does for controlled burns compared to the Midwest and Southeast was an insane eye opener to me. Florida alone does like 50x the amount of controlled burns than CA. Minnesota, which is tiny by comparison, does more controlled burns than CA (or at least used to within the last few years)

sharkmerry 5y ago
Minnesota is 50% of the land mass of California and 1/8 the population. easier to burn with less people affected CA, also is largely federal forests. Not sure how florida compares to that.
etc-hosts 5y ago
The multi year drought probably influences number of controlled burns in CA

burkaman 5y ago

I'd encourage you to read the fact check to understand why they described it as misleading: https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/climate-change-forest-management-and-several-other-causes-contribute-to-wildfire-severity-and-total-area-burned-in-the-western-united-states/ https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/climate-change-fores..., https://climatefeedback.org/responding-to-stossel-tv-video-on-our-rating-process/ https://climatefeedback.org/responding-to-stossel-tv-video-o...

hartator 5y ago
> Given that many pieces of content posted on Facebook can separately make the same claim, it is not necessary to create a separate claim review article for each post we rate. I mean they are admitting here that Stossel never made the claim they say he did. Then use all the rest of the article to stretch out that their interpretation of Stossel's "climate change has made things worse but" is actually the same "Not by climate change". Which is obviously untrue.