Read here. The IPCC, its climate models, and the 'Al Gores' of the world have boldly predicted that human-caused global warming would result in a greater quantity of wildfires, including forest fires. The actual empirical evidence, however, does not support that prediction, rather it refutes it.
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The huge geographic area of Canada and the United States has actually experienced a decline in the number of wildfires since 1970, during the time of greatest modern warming. The chart below shows the count of U.S. wildfires on the left y-axis and the right axis represents Canadian forest fires.
So far in 2011(mid-June 2011), the number of U.S. wildland fires indicate an annual total near the average for the last 10 years.
Note: Wildland fires include all those fire incidents taking place in countryside or wilderness area.
Additional failed-prediction, wildland-fire and severe-weather postings. List of past severe-weather incidents. Other severe-weather charts.