It all depends on your starting point: wildfire edition.

Since wildfires are in the news lets talk about the wildfire data that the Biden administration is hiding. Wildfire data always looks much worse if you start on a date with the lowest burn acreage. Before the Biden alimentation The U.S. Forest Service used to track wildfire data all the way back to 1916. In fact, this data is tracked on the U.S. Forest website and is gone now but the WayBackMachine saved it.

When Biden came into office it looks like they changed the responsibility for wildfire tracking from the U.S. Forest Agency to the National Interagency Fire Center. This agency erased all wildfire date prior to 1983. How convenient. Their excuse is the following:

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Prior to 1983, the federal wildland fire agencies did not track official wildfire data using current reporting processes. As a result, there is no official data prior to 1983 posted on this site.

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This is what they are hiding:



Again, how convenient. Let's pick the year with the lowest number of burn acreage and erase the past. "See, look what the burning of fossil fuels is doing to our environment. It is causing more wildfires. We are burning up.", bellyaches climate alarmists and blue haired NYTs authoritative columnists.

Meanwhile we are 10X lower in burn acreage compared to the Dust Bowl era when we burned far less fossil fuels.


But the most important take away. Notice how they pick the year with the lowest burn acreage, erase the past and then start tracking again. Of course the burn acreage is likely to go up from the lowest recorded point.