People throughout the Midwest and many Eastern states were recently reacquainted with the consequences of poor forest management as smoke from Canadian wildfires filled the skies. Green activists leaped into action, claiming that climate change is driving North American wildfires to dangerous new levels and that we must forgo essential energy sources such as fossil fuels to stop the smoke. But the inevitable results of their policies — higher taxes and a crippled economy — won’t stop wildfires, and they certainly won’t change the climate.
That’s because a changing climate isn’t the source of these wildfires. For the most part, people and lightning are.
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