Wildfires Both in California, and Especially Globally, Are Actually on the Decline.
Like the sea turtle with a Costa Rican straw in its nose being exploited to ban straws in the US, the California wildfires are a tiny part of a global picture that is the opposite of the one being presented…and even in Cali, wildfires peaked in the 1970s, as anyone old enough remembers.
To quote the National Institutes of Health:
“Wildfire has been an important process affecting the Earth’s surface and atmosphere for over 350 million years and human societies have coexisted with fire since their emergence. Yet many consider wildfire as an accelerating problem, with widely held perceptions both in the media and scientific papers of increasing fire occurrence, severity and resulting losses. However, important exceptions aside, the quantitative evidence available does not support these perceived overall trends. Instead, GLOBAL AREA BURNED APPEARS TO HAVE OVERALL DECLINED OVER PAST DECADES, and there is increasing evidence that there is less fire in the global landscape today than centuries ago.”
“A September 2017 report in the journal Science found that global burned area dropped by about 25 percent over the previous 18 years, a finding consistent with a May 2016 paper published by the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.”
why do whiny nerd boys complain about english localizations of horny anime games making the girls wear a bit more clothing when they should be complaining about kingdom hearts 3 turning winnie the pooh into an amorphous white blob in china
justice for winnie the pooh
I thought this was a surreal shitpost but apparently pooh, and just pooh as a character specifically, is banned from China all because a very lighthearted meme came to compare him to China’s leader
Obscure Fandoms 