Before You Blame Climate Change

For the California fires. Consider a more proximate and simple solution: clearing dead trees. An Op Ed from 2016:

Supporters of the logging bills have repeatedly claimed that forests with high levels of snags will burn more intensely, a notion that has been soundly debunked by peer-reviewed scientific studies. A comprehensive study recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that their “results refute the assumption that increased bark beetle activity has increased area burned.” Another study found that high snag densities in forests tend to “reduce the severity of subsequent wildfires” as most of the living flammable material was removed by insects.

Remember when it was brought up 2016 to clear dead trees from CA forests, the ultra liberals denied it would cause more intense burning and claimed it was a Republican plot to somehow do evil.

But sure, blame climate change.