re: "But most of those fires were not exacerbated by the near total lack of rainfall for several years before they started."
But some WERE.
There are always weather extremes going on some place. I showed you my pictures of Willard Bay, Utah, from a few years ago. But, guess what? The drought ended and everything is back to normal.
The second half of the 1970s and first half of the 1980s were spent with California in drought. Have you forgotten?
What about the dustbowl? Did you forget that? Yes, bad farming technique was largely to blame. But so was drought.
Southern Florida, of all places, had a major drought just a few years ago. And, not coincidentally, it had major wildfires.
Throughout my life, there's never been a year where weather disasters weren't happening somewhere. It's no different today - 'cept that maybe the nonstop huricanes you Global Warning Nuts keep predicting have been strangely absent.
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