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by ipsum2 1786 days ago
Blaming climate change for California wildfires is a neat way to deflect the real cause: forest mismanagement.

See https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/decades-mismanagement-l...

From 2018:

> During its review, the Commission found that California’s forests suffer from neglect and mismanagement, resulting in overcrowding that leaves them susceptible to disease, insects and wildfire.

https://lhc.ca.gov/report/fire-mountain-rethinking-forest-ma...

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Yep, and when I read those kinds of claims I think "this is what advocates for specific interventions around climate change believe is causation, therefore, they don't know what they're talking about"