This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Terry Anderson of the Hoover Institution

for his book, Adapt and Be Adapt, about climate change and what we can do, given the scale of it to make ourselves safer and also to respond to the changing climate conditions.

This is about fire season which is underway out west and Terry lives

out west. He lives in Montana. And here he is very practically saying what can be

done about living in the woods.

Terry Anderson, the Hoover Institution, more of this later tonight.

First, I would want to emphasize, despite the gloom and doom of the IPCC report, that we have to date burned one fourth, sorry, the fourth largest, sorry,

fourth lowest amount of forest in the United States in the past 11 years.

So we take these pictures of fires and we rant about how bad they are, but this is not one of the worst.

It isn't to say that isn't drier and climate isn't changing,

but it's not quite the draconian picture

that Mr. Carey would like to paint.

My homeowners association, I live in the woods, my homeowners

association just had a meeting to talk with experts about how to arm yourself or change the way you live so that you have less risk of wildfire.

My wife Monica and I have a house in the woods.

We took 200 tons of logs off of our hillside when we bought the house as part of our effort to reduce the fuel load and now we have much more moisture in the ground.

We have many more grass is growing they burn less fast and less hot

than trees and and we put a new roof on our house that's it's virtually fire

resistant those are the kinds of things that people who live in the woods where wildfire exists can do.

And what's so bad about the insurance regulatory

regulatory commission is that they are now requiring insurance

companies to list on your policy

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