The purpose of climate fact checkers is to attempt to interrupt any serious conversation about climate, and replace it with official disinformation.
“No, wildfires weren’t bigger in the 1920s and ‘30s than today”
“The data suffered from double and triple counting, and in the 1920s and 1930s, federal officials wrongly recorded millions of acres of intentional fires as wildfires.”
PolitiFact | No, wildfires weren’t bigger in the 1920s and ‘30s than today
The vast majority of recent fires are also started by humans, and the Heartland statement made no mention of “wildfires.” There were discrepancies in the way the number of fires were counted, but there is no discontinuity or discrepancy for burn acreage. The Heartland statement was correct, and the Politifact fact-check was completely false.
2010-sustainability-report.pdf
Forest Fires and how You Can Prevent Them – Google Books
TimesMachine: October 9, 1938 – NYTimes.com
The fire count shows a sharp discontinuity around 1983, but there is no discontinuity in bur acreage,
