This is what is crazy to me. Growing up in the Midwest, we always had controlled burns on extended family's rural farmland near forests, to prevent future wildfires. It was a regular occurrence
Looking up how absolutely little CA does for controlled burns compared to the Midwest and Southeast was an insane eye opener to me.
Florida alone does like 50x the amount of controlled burns than CA.
Minnesota, which is tiny by comparison, does more controlled burns than CA (or at least used to within the last few years)
CA, also is largely federal forests. Not sure how florida compares to that.
I mean they are admitting here that Stossel never made the claim they say he did. Then use all the rest of the article to stretch out that their interpretation of Stossel's "climate change has made things worse but" is actually the same "Not by climate change". Which is obviously untrue.