"The Camp fire happened because we received precisely zero inches of precipitation from the beginning of April, to the end of November this year, not because of a spark."

absolutely ridiculous assumption and overreach.

There are far too many people looking to point to climate change for every natural disaster that occurs. Many areas in California are naturally hot, dry, and prone to fires much of the year.

we are building more and more houses / structures in fire prone areas, making it worse.

"by 2050, 645,000 houses in California will be built in “very high” wildfire severity zones."

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/7/17661096/california-wildfires-2...

we also contribute to it beyond just starting the fires directly (power lines, vehicles, appliances, etc), we make the conditions worse with poor land management

"Some researchers said that logging in the burned area after a fire in 2008, which was intended to clear out fuels and make this part of Northern California safer, may have had the opposite result. The logging may have left fast-burning weeds and young trees in the fire’s path."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/us/camp-fire-paradise-cau...

A study published earlier this year in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, or PNAS, found that 84 percent of wildfires are ignited by humans, whether through downed power lines, careless campfires, or arson.

“Human-started wildfires ... tripled the length of the fire season, dominated an area seven times greater than that affected by lightning fires, and were responsible for nearly half of all area burned,” the paper reported.

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