April 19, 2023

Is it Climate Change?

California has been having forest fires for as long as I can remember. They even started to name their fires. You have the Delta and Carr Fires in the North. Yosemite National Park was closed for a month as the Ferguson Fire raged. The Mendocino Complex Fire consumed nearly 460,000 acres north of San Francisco. Last year the Mosquito Fire destroyed 78 homes and burned 76,800 acres of forest.

I did some investigating and discovered the average annual burn in the last 5 years consumed 2.3 million acres of forest per year. California has 33 million acres of forest. At this rate, in 15 years, forest fires should no longer be a problem. Thank the Lord, huh?