alt Hacker NewsYou don't witness self-refuting articles very often. Editors must already be on holiday.
>But the tree rings also show droughts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and a severe drought in the nineteen-sixties. (1963 was a particularly tragic wildfire season in New Jersey.) The Earth’s atmosphere is complex enough that, every now and then, Seager explained, “something really strange is going to happen and there’s going to be a long sequence of dry weather.”
It's not clear how evidence of past wet-dry cycles "refutes" the assertion that the region is currently experiencing drought conditions and becoming more fire prone.