Seems to me people are stumbling on words - “caused” vs “exacerbated” or “accentuates”.
Climate change is both “causing” fires in the sense that conditions allow more fires to grow to become problems and, as the paper says, “accentuate” fires.
Historical forest management techniques, specifically fire suppression, has also “caused” fires in the sense that conditions allow more fires to grow to become problems.
Both these things are true. It’s also true that neither “cause” fires as in ignite them. Wildlands don’t spontaneously combust. In fact almost all fires in the western US at least are human caused with the balance being lightning.
Seems to me people are stumbling on words - “caused” vs “exacerbated” or “accentuates”.
Climate change is both “causing” fires in the sense that conditions allow more fires to grow to become problems and, as the paper says, “accentuate” fires.
Historical forest management techniques, specifically fire suppression, has also “caused” fires in the sense that conditions allow more fires to grow to become problems.
Both these things are true. It’s also true that neither “cause” fires as in ignite them. Wildlands don’t spontaneously combust. In fact almost all fires in the western US at least are human caused with the balance being lightning.