US Wildfires Dropping 10% Per Decade

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Steven Goddard

ScreenHunter 29 Nov. 05 07.04 US Wildfires Dropping 10% Per Decade

According to the US Government National Interagency Fire Center, US wildfires occur half as often as they did 50 years ago. The 1970s (ice age scare) had a huge number of fires.

The IPCC predicted the exact opposite :

15.2.2.1.3. Fire

global warming also may increase fire frequency

http://observatory.ph/resources/IPCC/TAR/wg2/559.htm#152213

In 1939, the US had a forest fire every three minutes.

ScreenHunter 143 Sep. 16 17.54 US Wildfires Dropping 10% Per Decade

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

 

 

 

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One Response to US Wildfires Dropping 10% Per Decade

  1. avatar Les Johnson says:
    November 5, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    I would be leery of this data, as there is a sharp step change 1982-1983 for the number of fires.

    I also have trouble with the number of fires decreasing, but acreage increasing.

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