Publication Date October 26, 2015 | Media Matters

Scientists Blast LA Times Story On Wildfires And Climate Change

United States
Times Publishes Letters By Experts Who "Say The Article Was Wrong To Assert That Climate Change Isn't Fueling" California Wildfires
Times Publishes Letters By Experts Who "Say The Article Was Wrong To Assert That Climate Change Isn't Fueling" California Wildfires

The Los Angeles Times has published several letters to the editor by scientists and other experts criticizing its October 18 article that wrongly challenged the link between climate change and the wildfires that have been ravaging California. The Times article baselessly claimed that "experts" say California Gov. Jerry Brown's comments describing such a link are "unsupported," when in fact numerous scientists and major scientific reports have detailed the connection global warming has to both recent and future wildfires in the Southwest United States.