Written by by Cliff Mass at wattsupwiththat.com
The Seattle’s Times ClimateLab writers have done it again.
Another highly deceptive and error-filled climate story in the ST. One predicting more than a doubling of wildfires over western Washington and Oregon by mid-century.
The trouble is that this story is based on a highly problematic paper published in February in JGR Biogeosciences (see below). A paper that is missing the key element of Westside wildfires and makes predictions that are unsupported and highly exaggerated.
Before anyone suggests I should not comment on this work, let me note that I am doing research on EXACTLY this topic. I have read all the relevant papers. The authors of this paper cite several of my previous papers on the topic.