[AvesMerit]

Are we reading the same article? Here's the text from article mentioning climate change

# 4. Climate change hasn’t helped. “Increasing heat, changing rain and snow patterns, shifts in plant communities, and other climate-related changes have vastly increased the likelihood that fires will start more often and burn more intensely and widely than they have in the past,”

[jdoliner]

This article does a good job of acknowledging global-warming as a cause. Which I do too. I'm agreeing with it that the best way to respond is to do prescribed burns. They ameliorate the short-term and long-term ill effects of the megafires. Which ultimately contribute more to climate change. The frustrating thing is that no-burns is typically seen as the pro-climate change response, which makes a certain amount of sense because doing a burn puts smoke into the air. It's also naturally controversial because it affects the air quality around where you do the burn. No one wants to have smokey air. With a prescribed burn they blame the government. So it carries a lot of political liability.