No, this isn’t about CO2. Historically, drought is the norm for California, but people think that their own personal memories are more important than actual history.
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No, this isn’t about CO2. Historically, drought is the norm for California, but people think that their own personal memories are more important than actual history.
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There are less forests today because of deforestation, with less forests there will be less forest fires.
There is more forest in the northeast U.S. now than during colonial times.
Sorry, I was looking at this bit: “Analysis of charcoal records in sediments [31] and isotope-ratio records in ice cores [32] suggest that global biomass burning during the past century has been lower than at any time in the past 2000 years.”
Also there would be less biomass burning because of increased agriculture, grasslands are harvested, there’s nothing there to burn in the middle of summer.
There is a lot of uncertainty about what the world used to look like in terms of forests. In South America, where we see jungle today, there is evidence it was once farmland and the jungle grew because of human modification of the land. In North America, there is evidence that there used to both more and less trees prior to Europeans.
Humans always modify their environment and fire was one way they did so but in much of the western USA, wildfires have always been something to worry about because of the climate.
This bit’s just stupid:
“While the atmosphere is still well-within the “fire window,” the trend in atmospheric oxygen content has been steadily moving in the opposite direction of increased fire risk since the Late Cretaceous.
So, atmospheric oxygen has not been playing ball with the Gorebal Warming narative… ”
The figures they give for the “fire window” is between 15% and 35%, atmospheric oxygen levels have declined from about 20.95% to about 20.95%.