Sensational new findings published in Nature Communications effectively blow the politicised wildfire climate change scam out of the water. Far from human-caused climate change making wildfires worse across the United States and Canada, it was found that recent fires occurred at a rate of only 23% of that expected from a review of the previous historical record going back to the 17th century. The researchers note that a current “widespread fire deficit” persists across a range of forest types and the areas burned in the recent past “are not unprecedented” when considering the multi-century perspective.
Needless to say, there has been no mention of these finding in narrative-driven mainstream media. In fact one Nature pre-publication peer-reviewer commented on the clear danger the paper presented to this important climate scares promoting the Net Zero fantasy. “I see this paper as potentially being used by deniers of climate change impacts,” the reviewer notes. “Consider if possible some rephrasing to put even more emphasis on impact rather than on burned area,” is the suggestion. In other words, concentrate on the emotional impact of individual fires, allowing legacy media, aided by junk computer modelled attribution studies, to concentrate on speculation and fearmongering rather than the facts. Another clear example of what might be termed Ultra Processed News, designed to make the individual consumer sick with worry and induce mass climate psychosis.
A group of 19 scientists led by Sean Parks from the USDA Forest Service used accurate data from the North American tree-ring fire-scar network (NAFSN) to gain precise annual data on the areas burnt. Interestingly, it was found that recent ‘record’ fire years such as 2020 burned 6% of NAFSN sites and this compared with the 29% recorded in 1748. “Overall, contemporary fires (1984-2022) burned NAFSN sites less frequently than fires during the historical reference period (pre-1880), indicating that a substantial fire deficit persists and is still accumulating across many forests and woodlands across the United States and Canada,” it was noted.
In a conclusion that should (but it won’t) destroy the non-stop mainstream wildfire fearmongering, the scientists found that based on the fire scar record, the NAFSN sites would have been expected to burn 4,346 times from 1984-2022, yet they burnt only 989 times, a figure that is just 23% of what would have been expected under the historical fire regime. While these factual findings are dramatic, they should not come as a great surprise. Much to the chagrin of climate activists and the attribution artists, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has detected no human involvement in fire weather activity to date and expects none going forward to 2100.
In a recent article for the BBC on the Los Angeles fires, Matt McGrath ignored the evidence showing that they were made worse by local Democrat eco-mismanagement and pointed out the conclusion that a warmer world increased the chances of devastating wildfires occurring. The inevitable Net Zero plug followed: “As more fossil fuels continue to be burnt, those chances will continue to rise.” In the world of Ultra Processed News, the actual facts are often missing from the pre-determined narrative. Chief climate bunkum writer at the Guardian Damian Carrington might also care to read Parks et al. before he repeats a recent claim that “globally, scientists agree that climate change is increasing the global risk of wildfires starting and spreading”.
Back to the facts. The prevalence of non-fire years was found to occur “significantly more often” in the contemporary period than in the historic record as shown across all NAFSN sites. In fact this might be an underestimate given the relatively low sample size in the first few decades of the historical period. Current fire occurrence is still far below the historical levels despite large and ‘record-breaking’ recent fire years, such as 2020 in the western US. “Individual years with particularly widespread fire during the 1984-2022 period were not unprecedented in comparison with the active fire regimes of the historical period across most of the study region,” state the researchers. Areas burned by wildfires during the last few decades “remain relatively low”, they note.
The graph below shows that US wildfires were much worse in the past and its veracity is confirmed by Parks et al. Dramatic improvements are shown since the end of the 1920s. But in 2021, at the height of the Biden Green Mania, the chart was withdrawn by the National Interagency Fire Centre and replaced with information from the conveniently low point of 1983. Excuses were made that the past data were unreliable.
The replacement of course meant that trusted messengers could report that wildfires had been increasing in the US, creating the obligatory ‘record’ years. The American meteorologist and founder of the climate site Watts Up With That? Anthony Watts was less than impressed. “This wholesale erasure of important public data stinks, but in today’s narrative control culture that wants to rid us of anything that might be inconvenient or doesn’t fit the ‘woke’ narrative, it isn’t surprising,” he observes.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Oh no!!!!!, people will die.
Good. Now we can all go back to worrying about how many people on the plane will die if someone dares eat a peanut.
Or if the pilot will have a heart attack or stroke because of the mandatory jabs….
You can spend all your life worrying about things that are not going to happen. A glance at flightradar24.com will show you people flying all round Europe at this very moment – probably mostly jabbed, all still alive. No commercial airline crashes reported since… well, who can remember?
How many car, lorry, bus crashes in the UK in recent times due to “the driver having been jabbed” ?
https://www.faa.gov/coronavirus/guidance_resources/vaccine_faq
“What pilot duties or activities are specifically prohibited during the post-vaccination 48-hour observation period?
So they are deemed as not fit to fly/grounded.
Only for 48 hours. How about lorry drivers? Forbidden to drive for 48 hours after a jab? Eastern European drivers are more of a hazard, continuously crashing into low bridges, and hanging onto your rear bumper.
It clearly says –
“In the event that an FAA medical certificate holder experiences side effects after the 48-hour period has elapsed, the medical certificate holder may not act as pilot in command, or in any other capacity as a required flightcrew member”
So no, they are still deemed unfit to fly.
As for lorry drivers, any health problems need to be reported to the DVLA, which results in their driving licence being revoked.
Only for 48 hours. After which they are deemed fit to fly. And are indeed at work right now.
If you are worried about flying because your pilot is going to have a heart attack “because of the vaccines”, then don’t fly.
We’re planning a trip now and the last thing that concerns me is that the plane will ‘drop out of the sky’ because the pilots have been jabbed.
We know many people who have been jabbed 3 times and are still alive and seemingly well – I know that’s an inconvenient truth for some, but there you go.
So what happened to the pilot who collapsed when flying a plane somewhere in the USA in the last 48 hours and the plane had to be landed by a passenger – w no flight qualifications – guided by an air traffic controller???
Maybe so, but I am more concerned with the amount of cancelled flights & driver shortages, including ambulance drivers, which just happens to coincide with jab uptake.
Fun fact, the Royal Mail has the largest fleet in the UK, they have been using agency drivers (mostly manpower) more than ever over the last year or so, many of which are from EU countries, due to RM drivers being unfit to drive, post jab.
“due to RM drivers being unfit to drive, post jab.”
Your source for this is…… ?
Eastern European citizens flooded into the UK after their countries joined the EU and they were free to run away from their slums and depressing way of life in their ex-Soviet homelands, that’s why they are replacing ‘British workers’.
Wasn’t that a little plane with one pilot and one passenger? Not a commercial jet with a couple of hundred on board.
People do become ill at inconvenient times and places. Do you know for sure that this pilot you mention became ill as a result of the Covid vaccines?
Do you even know if he was ‘vaccinated’? No, you don’t. You’re just using any old illness or death as ‘proof’ people are dying of ‘the vaccines’.
Get the facts first.
wonder if wearing a mask on a flight protects against that?
Forget the Diamond Princess. Has there ever been a single report of a mass outbreak of the deadliest most virulent virus ever, in the best possible space for it to occur: Inside the crammed cabin of an airliner carrying hundreds of humans in intimate distance of each other?
Yes. ‘Airport officials’ in India have this trick: everyone boards a plane in Europe having tested ‘negative for Covid’. When the plane arrives in India a quarter of the passengers have become ‘positive’ and must quarantine in a ‘hotel’. Baksheesh all round.
I still won’t fly anywhere until they drop the requirements to wear them in airports
According to the article airports are included.
Good spot! I didn’t read it properly, maybe I’m so used to everything coming with a catch!
Oh well, summer hols back on.
Now all you need to worry about is whether or not your triple-jabbed captain has a medical episode resulting in your plane crashing.
Why would a plane crash? There’s a co-pilot, and a plane will carry on flying on autopilot until somebody turns that off, or the plane runs out of fuel. Here are instructions on what to do if both pilots have eaten the fish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePDl1JNqjpM
Or you could get the passenger to land it like that guy in Miami whose pilot collapsed.
Story was a plant, sceptics likely say. This kind of “story” could very well be part of the nudge propaganda to reassure the sheeple that should more of this happens [because your pilots is vax-damaged] it’s not a big deal as virtually anyone can land the thing. Another fictional narrative, like the heart attack and stroke softening up stories of late, nothing unusual, nothing rare…Wink Wink Nudge Nudge
Half my team is based in the US and they’re all moaning that nobody is “taking this thing seriously anymore and OMG, they’re not wearing maaaaaaaaasks in the office”.
I have a friend returning from Oz for the first time in two years. She too is angry that Boris isn’t taking it seriously enough, she doesn’t trust him! So she’ll be wearing her mask throughout when we meet up. It could be the last time….
You’d think that the fact that we’re not all dropping like flies might register something in their tiny minds! But no
They seem to think the corpses are piled up in the street here.
Found one!
Then they took him to the shopping centre.
And then they took him to lay in front of a shop.
And then they smashed them all to bits.
For a dead person, he certainly got around a bit!
Laid out very neatly, I note, flat on the back, feet together, hands to the sides. Very tidy.
You could say the same about the people who claim ‘the vaccines’ are Killer Jabs. Shoppers in Asda simply refuse to keel over whilst clutching their celery.
they were doing it at football matches instead.
Clutching celery at a football match?
been travelling with work to Norway since Feb – no restrictions on any forms of transport, none. Not a face nappy in sight.
Was in The Toon over the weekend, same.
Apart from the odd virtue signaller hardly anyone is wearing masks in Newcastle anymore. That is despite The awful ‘mask up and get vaxxed to the max’ advert that is currently running on local TV.
Even for the unjabbed? Next countries like Spain will be allowing the health hazards into their countries but will probably have to quarantine for 2 weeks.
That’s good news – I’m flying next Friday.
Me too. Flying to Germany on business on Monday. Downside is a FFP2 mask is still needed on the train.
According to a source in Germany, as Germany still requires masks on public transport, this applies to all planes landing in Germany. From the moment you step into the plane.
Makes absolutely no sense, but hey, Germany, once known for their intellectuals, have totally lost the plot and constant mask wearing for 2 years has not helped.
Off topic, but does anybody else think that the majority of people are lacking joined up thinking (I would say totally stupid but I know some intelligent people who believe everything they are told)?
The whole world should shut down, wear a mask, get jabbed with experimental drugs and imprison themselves because it’ll save lives, but very keen to get involved in a war that’ll kill young fit health people!
It’s a funny old world. A topsy turvy world. Best not think too logically or rationally or it will drive you mad.
‘The agencies said the levels of vaccination, naturally acquired immunity and the lifting of Covid restrictions in many European countries were behind the decision to lift the mandatory mask recommendation….’
So nothing to do with they’re ineffective and may cause more harm than good, just more of the same crap!!
Good. Now do hospitals.
Looks like Finland has decided to join NATO without any sort of ‘referendum’. So much for ‘democracy’.
“Britain pledged yesterday to come to Sweden and Finland’s aid should either of the countries come under Russian attack.”
A pledge from Boris Johnson? The man who aided in an attempt to have a journalist beaten up?
“A journalist has demanded that Boris Johnson apologise for plot to beat him up
Stuart Collier said it showed the Tory front runner was not fit to be the new PM
Mr Johnson has dismissed the notorious incident three decades ago as a joke”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10808635/Finlands-leaders-announce-intention-join-NATO-saying-apply-without-delay.html
I thought that Sweden was a neutral country, so isn’t joining a military organisation like NATO breaking their neutrality status? But then I’m just a Covid idiot.
Masks don’t do anything. Pass it on.
I try my best, and have been doing so for ages.
But people just don’t believe it and clutch those face muzzles ever closer to their noses.
The brainwashing has been too effective.
But the agencies say that wearing a face mask is ‘still one of the best protections against the transmission of COVID-19.’
Even better than a sprig of lucky heather? Where do they get this crap from?
Rabbit’s foot. That’s lucky. Well, not for the rabbit, obviously.
About as effective as a face muzzle.
I find that sucking on a Fisherman’s Friend helps
Which body part?
About time! But they wouldn’t have done this earlier so as not to lose face.
But isn’t this being rather naive? ”They” don’t WANT people travelling – anything that puts them off is a good thing, surely. No doubt ”requirements” will return, and then bans, except for ”certain people”.
Yes, the same masks that cause a dangerous build up of CO2 in the user finally (Andrew Bostom MD Gold standard CO2 Monitoring Study) dropped. It only took two years to figure this one out.
Weiterhin Maskenpflicht auf Flügen in 15 europäische Staaten – airliners.de
According to this professional aviation business magazine, countries which still have a mask mandate for public transport require airline passengers to mask up the moment they step onto the steps of the plane, either leaving the country or arriving. Does not make sense at all. It is 15 countries in Europe.
It is expected that these countries drop it soon.
”Will masks return in winter?” Not on MY face they won’t.