Even as government-supported “mainstream” news sources claim global warming is causing increasing wildfires, the data show the opposit.
2023 will almost certainly go down in records as one of the years with the LEAST amount of burn acreage. In California, the number of acres burned so far this year is less than one third of the five-year average, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
And although western Canada did experience a lot of wildfire this past summer, it seems those wildfires may have been set by arsonists.