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Originally Posted by Kirk  CO2 is accelerating the warming. We melted the North Pole in 50 short years.
The wildfire season is now longer than it was. I posted a scientific study about that which you chose to ignore. 1,000 square miles of California have burned, and it isn't even fire season yet. |
As I have said, nothing in the wildfires has changed in the last 500 years. You state there has been an uptick since the 80's, fine. But CO2 emmissions were growing by a clip of 30% since 1880 with no dramatic change in wildfires. Also as I have said, CA is a small part of the planet. It's like seeing one deer and saying that the deer population is exploding.
http://www.oism.org/pproject/GWReview_OISM600.pdf
Surface temperatures in the United States during the past century
reflect this natural warming trend and its correlation with solar activity,
as shown in Figures 4 and 5. Compiled U.S. surface temperatures
have increased about 0.5 °C per century, which is consistent with
other historical values of 0.4 to 0.5 °C per century during the recovery
from the Little Ice Age (13-17). This temperature change is slight
as compared with other natural variations, as shown in Figure 6.
Three intermediate trends are evident, including the decreasing trend
used to justify fears of “global cooling” in the 1970s.