The National Interagency Fire Center lists these fires as the largest in US history.
- 1871 Peshtigo Fire – 3.8 million acres
- 1825 Maine Fire – 3 million acres
- 1898 South Carolina – 3 million acres
- 1910 Idaho – 3 million acres
- 1881 Michigan – 2.5 million acres
National Interagency Fire Center
People who claim that fires are getting worse – are imbeciles.
Man made CO2 is obviously making wild fires smaller. CO2 is found in many fire extinguishers, and works well on class B & C fires, but not as well on class A (wood). But when the fire is over, the extra CO2 will help restore the flora even faster. 😉
“Imbecile” Gore owns a palace. “Imbeciles” Hanson, Mann & Co. control billions of R&D dollars. With no major scientific society calling their bluff and skeptical voices plotting obscure mathematical technical arguments while fully ignoring simple thermometer and tide gauge records that alone fully falsify AGW claims by showing no trend changes in our high CO2 era, how to most accurately label true believers still confuses me. If science, worldwide and across disciplines, embarrassingly encouraged temperamentally religious folk to invest their egos in doomsday scenario paganism, well, would it really be practically smart for them to suddenly reject their entire social and existential personna instead of milking it for all it’s worth, sexually and financially, quite a bit longer? Greenpeace chicks are still manning clipboards this time of year, here on the Upper West Side.
Only one of them was in an arid place. Very interesting.