Opinion | Climate Change Hasn't Set the World on Fire - The Wall Street Journal

Climate Change Hasn’t Set the World on Fire - WSJ

July 31, 2023 5:35 pm ET

One of the most common tropes in our increasingly alarmist climate debate is that global warming has set the world on fire. But it hasn’t. For more than two decades, satellites have recorded fires across the planet’s surface. The data are unequivocal: Since the early 2000s, when 3% of the world’s land caught fire, the area burned annually has trended downward.

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