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Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service with me Ben Carter.

Earlier this month the Economist newspaper run a front page which caught the eye of a number

of people on Twitter.

The text read...

In the line of fire, losing the war against climate change.

Earth is smoldering. From Seattle to Siberia, this flames have consumed swaths of the Northern Hemisphere.

On August the 4th Dr Bjorne Lomborg, author of the book Skeptical Environmentalist, which set him up as perhaps the world's best-known

critic of the dominant scientific view of global warming, tweeted a picture of the economist's

front page and drew attention to the situation in the United States.

Please stop the misleading fire stories. The US is smoldering less, not more.

2018 will likely see burnt area one-sixth of the US record.

Dr Lomborg attached to chart produced by the National Interagency Fire Center in the United States, which showed the annual number of wildfires in the U.S.

from 1926 to 2018.

The chart showed that between the 1950s and present day, there were very few years that wildfires

had exceeded more than 10 million acres per year of damage.

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