BBC Lies About Mediterranean Wildfires Exposed
By Paul Homewood
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/shock-news-its-hot-in-portugal/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-8f0357f9-9013-4567-8407-be938c8c70cf
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For the past couple of years, the BBC and the rest of the media have banging the drum about Mediterranean wildfires, claiming that they are now much worse than ever before thanks to climate change.
The full data has now been published by the EU, and it proves you have been lied to!
Last year the burnt area was only average, and the year before was nothing exceptional either:
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The wildfires were bad last year in Greece, but they were far worse in 2007. But long term trends are not increasing, and most years in the last decade have recorded low levels of fire activity, compared to the 1980s and 90s.
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SOURCES
1) Data up to 2020: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/burnt-forest-area-in-five-4/#tab-chart_5
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2) Data since 2020: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/88bc1891-f6f6-11ee-a251-01aa75ed71a1
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Police in Spain say wildfires are started by drug smugglers to reduce the time and manpower that can be used to stop their activities. Greek police say much the same but with them it’s mostly illegal immigrant smuggling.
There is also land clearance so a person can start construction and then have it recognised in a country that even in the 21st century still has no proper land registry.
Such an extraordinary claim requires much evidence.
First, define ‘climate change.’
Then, describe how it affected fuel availability.
Then, describe how it affected ignition sources. [Made humans so crazy they lit fires?]
Over hundreds of thousands of hectares.
Their claims are preposterous. They just throw them out for government educated subjects to absorb.
Regarding Greece, if Turkish arsonists counts as “climate change”, why not?
Had a conversation with a pair of police officers on one of the islands, a couple of years ago. (They had a break and are personal friends with the hotel owner, at the place I stayed at.) Confirmed, a vast majority of the fires was set by Erdogan footmen.
You should have stopped at ‘BBC lies’
Yesterday we had the BBC/ Lowrat banging on again about the excessive heat in April, the heat in the seas and, to crown it off, the dreadful fate of Barnacles lurking on rocks near the Menai bridge.
Some gormless woman stated that if she was a barnacle, she’d be rather worried! This in response to Lowrat and some “scientists” claiming that the sea temperature in the Menai straights had increased by a massive 1°C. Just in the last 70 years. Imagine the stress! As Lowrat pointed out, the poor little barnacles couldn’t move!
There was even some kind of weird white algae that had travelled all the way from Japan because it enjoyed the toasty water temperature at Menai. Whether from the reamaining Japanese Kuril island or from Okinawa it didn’t say, although coral bleaching was worse anyway.
I can only imagine that the BBC is just deliberately taking the piss and Lowrat gets a bonus for the most barefaced and absurd lies he can imagine.
I would totally agree with your comments, Martin. What a load of cr*p!
What really made me laugh was this sentence:
‘El Niño sees warmer waters come to the surface of the Pacific. As a result, it tends to push up the global average.’
It just goes to show how little these journalists know about the oceans.
By the way, Copernicus measures only the upper few centimetres of the ocean, so with less wind and no upwelling of cold water there is less mixing of the surface waters, and the measurements are therefore going to exaggerate the temperature of the ocean as they cannot ‘see’ the temperature at depth and therefore relate the temperatures to the oceans as a whole.
Mediterranean plants burn. They always have done so throughout history. Shrubs and thorny plants which sheep and goats cannot graze on like Salvia rosmarinus, and lavender type bushes. have essential oils for example and are so more combustible. Like gorse and broom in cooler climates.
Before WW2 the mediterranean forests were managed by people who earned their living from them, like charcoal burners and goat herders, so the forest floor was kept clean. This is no longer the case with the forests being full of dry tinder.
There are also visitors in summer who do not know how to behave, thus setting fires accidentally. Finally we have a large number of arsonists nowadays, whether acting for commercial reasons, or simply for the thrill, are now responsible for most of these forest fires.
I do think a lot of the Green Socialist nutters cause the ” Wildfires ” to try to further their cause and claim the world is getting worse . Knowing that the left wing media will make up stories along that line .
A few years ago there was a famous tree on the shore on an Indian Ocean ? island which was in a photograph taken perhaps 150 years ago .Because photographs taken now prove that Sea levels are not rising , someone , [ almost certainly green nutters ] , destroyed the tree so that the proof no longer existed .
Perhaps the “Sycamore Gap tree”, which once stood in a dip next to Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, was chopped down by people with an exaggerated concern about rising sea levels?
Quelle surprise as we say in deepest Surrey.
Wildfires started by climerati terrorists, as was reported by some outlets (not the State owned ones!)
Both bar charts support a view that regular but relatively small scale fires reduce the risk of large scale conflagrations.
My view is that – in the UK – there used to be many more smaller fires in rural areas, with various causes. Stubble-burning used to be spectacular.
“Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way… well, if you’re watching, don’t worry, there isn’t!”. Prophetic words from Michael Fish. Following a once in a lifetime wind in 1987 that graphically cut a swathe through Wentworth golf course and reduced Sevenoaks to a couple of oaks forestry changed and it was considered that forest litter, fallen trees etcetera, were ecologically valuable habitats (not to say brilliant tinder). Since, there have been instance in America of managed woodlands being largely untouched while neighbouring public forest has been devastated. The former under management for profit with attention paid to the nurturing of commercial wood and the latter subject (or not) to ongoing conventions on wildlife and the ‘natural’ environment.
We have just returned from a 3.5 week Mediterranean trip ranging from Gibraltar to Crete. Everywhere was 3C – 4C cooler than we had researched & packed for. Not a sign of wildfires anywhere. More meeja rubbish.
My niece lives near Porthaethwy (Menai Bridge); the winter to summer temp range far exceeds any “increase” currently bothering the BBC.