from Watts Up With That:

Egregious cherry-picking by alarmist climate scientists attempts to delude the public into believing that a slight increase in wildfire burnt acres can be blamed on rising CO2. First, they dishonestly ignore the scientific evidence that far more fires happened before the 1930s when CO2 and global temperatures were much lower than today (Graphic A).

Nonetheless, Daniel Swain, click-bait media’s go to “scientist”, myopically sees every negative environmental change as a function of rising CO2 due to his tutelage under alarmists Michael Mann and Noah Diffenbaugh. So unsurprisingly Swain falsely pontificates, “Recent work points toward anthropogenic climate change rapidly altering Western United States (WUS) fire regimes to produce overall more extreme wildfires.”