Ben Carter
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694 appearances
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first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
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Individual fires today burn for more than 50 days.
In the early 80s, they burned for less than 10.
Maggie Kurth-Baker explains why.
It might not come as a massive surprise to hear that US President Donald Trump tweeted about California's wildfires on August 6th.
He said that the wildfires are being magnified and made so much worse by the bad environmental laws, which aren't allowing massive amounts of ready available water to be properly utilised.
He said that it was being diverted into the Pacific Ocean.
I asked Maggie whether there was any truth to this claim.
Maggie Kurth Baker from FiveThirtyEight.com.
A day after Dr Longborg tweeted about US wildfires, he tweeted again, with the same economist's front page and a comment about fires in southern European countries.
He was referring to European Environment Agency data that looked at how much land had been burnt in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece between 1980 and 2016.
He cited the fact that the trend line showed a reduction in the annual number of burnt hectares from roughly 600,000 to 300,000.
However, in 2017, 895,000 hectares were burnt, the second largest number on record.
And if we factor that number into the equation, then the reduction is closer to a third than a half, something that Dr Lomborg accepts.
That's all we've got time for this week, but if you've got any questions, email moreorless at bbc.co.uk or tweet at BBC More or Less.
Given an American gallon of petrol weighs only 2.8 kilograms, how can this be right?
Isn't this creating matter?
How many Lego bricks stacked one on top of the other would it take to destroy the bottom brick?
This is the short edition of More or Less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Hello and welcome to More or Less.
I'm Ben Carter.
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