Seth Borenstein and the Associated Press released a fact-free climate propaganda piece ahead of COP26. It is too rich in misinformation to cover in a single post.
Earth Gets Hotter, Deadlier During Decades of Climate Talks | World News | US News
There has been a slight increase in death rates from natural disasters since the 1990s, but they are down 97% over the past century.
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Similarly, there has been a small increase in forest fire burn acreage since the 1980s, but burn acreage is down almost 90% over the last century.
https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_stats_totalFires.html
National Fire News | National Interagency Fire Center
National Report on Sustainable Forests — 2010
TimesMachine: October 9, 1938 – NYTimes.com
As of January 29, 2021, the National Interagency Fire Center showed burn acreage back to 1926.
https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_stats_totalFires.html
But now they only show it back to 1983, saying that prior to 1983 different processes were used to track data.
Wildfires and Acres | National Interagency Fire Center
As of November 1, 2020 the National Interagency Fire Center had this document on the their website showing that burn acreage is down 90% since the pre-industrial era.
https://www.nifc.gov/PIO_bb/Policy/FederalWildlandFireManagementPolicy_2001.pdf
But the Biden administration has erased it, and replaced it with a message of commitment to making information accessible to people with disabilities.
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Climate alarmism is based around this graph which is a hodgepodge of manipulated and unrelated data. Phil Jones described it this way.
Iconic graph at center of climate debate | Penn State University
Climate alarmists are fine with mixing and matching completely unrelated data, but they throw out inconvenient data on the flimsiest of excuses. And there is no evidence that governments have any intention of reducing CO2 emissions. China isn’t even showing up at Glasgow.
CO? and Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Our World in Data
