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Droughts Worsening Wildfires on US Coasts

Droughts Worsening Wildfires on US Coasts

Above: A wildfire burns and spreads on a mountain in West Milford, NJ on Nov. 9, 2024. Image copyright: Kyle Mazza/Contributor/Anadolu via Getty Images

The Facts

  • Wildfares are raging on the east and west coasts of the US, including 21K acres (31 sq miles) of land burned from the Mountain Fire in Ventura County, Calif., and 3K acres (4.6 sq miles) of land from the Jennings Creek Wildfire in Passaic County, New Jersey.Wildfires are raging on the East Coast and West Coast of the US, including 21K acres of land burned from the Mountain Fire in Ventura County, Calif., and 3K acres of land from the Jennings Creek Wildfire in Passaic County, New Jersey.

  • Alongside the Jennings Creek Fire, which is currently 10% contained, fires are also burning in New Jersey, Michigan, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, with over 100 brush fires in NYC this month.Alongside the Jennings Creek Fire, which is currently 10% contained, fires are also burning in Michigan, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania There have been over 100 brush fires in New York City this month.


The Spin

GlobalThis warming is creatingthe afault cycle of disasterclimate change. First,Carbon carbon emissions leadare leading to hotter and dryerdrier climates, whichleading lead to larger fires acrossthat the country, and those fires release more carbon into the atmosphere. Not only are they burning down millions of acres of coastal land, burning but they're emitting more amounts of toxic smoke thatis Americansbeing are forced to breathe inemitted. Americans don't even have to read climate literature to see and smell the effects of climate change.

TheClimate change's role of climate change in wildfires is exaggerated, often at the expense of other crucial factors, likeincluding human-caused ignitions and poor forest management. This distortion stems from twisted criteria in academic publishing that favor politicized discourse over truth, leading false narratives about climate impacts to hinder the development of practical solutions. The so-called scientific community has been hijacked by political movements with no care for real research.



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