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Re fires, this short article may be of interest: web.archive.org/web/202…
There's not a ton of scientific evidence in there, but to take one line in here literally, it seems like researchers think climate change is responsible for somewhere between 1/3 and 2/3's of the increase in fire severity/damage (and there's good evidence that it really is a factor)
Re fires, this short article may be of interest: https://web.archive.org/web/20240215095648/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/climate/wildfire-climate-change-urban-firestorm.html
There's not a ton of scientific evidence in there, but to take one line in here literally, it seems like researchers think climate change is responsible for somewhere between 1/3 and 2/3's of the increase in fire severity/damage (and there's good evidence that it really is a factor)
Thanks for going to the work of looking that up. If I gave the impression that I think climate change is responsible for 0% I apologize. 1/3-2/3 sounds about right. My big complaint is that it felt like Vaillant was saying it was 100%. And if he didn't think it was 100% it would have been nice for him to spend a few pages talking about the other potentially contributing factors, particularly if those factors amount to, potentially, 2/3 of the total.