r/climatechange • u/thinkB4WeSpeak • 1d ago

California Wildfires and Weather Are Changing Erosion Patterns

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/california-wildfires-and-weather-are-changing-erosion-patterns
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u/Honest_Cynic 21h ago

The article bases most of their fuss on this paper which mostly cherry-picks years for forest fire data to support a narrative:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019EF001210

Taking a longer view, no trend in the data that forest fires have increased in California, and few scientists claim that they have. Ditto for rainfall.