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The article you linked to was foolish.
One article it linked to said it was linked climate change, wheras the article said it was climate variablity:
Title: Western Wildfires Linked To Variations In Climate.
"Scientists from the California Applications Program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have found a link between variations in climate and the severity of wildfires that spans a range of regions and ecosystems across the Western U.S. over the last two decades."
It also says:
""Over the last several thousand years, the Western U.S. landscape evolved in the presence of periodic wildfires. A lot of species here need fire to propagate themselves. An important problem that has developed is that our fire seasons are much more severe than they used to be because we've aggressively suppressed fires for most of the past century. Consequently, fuels have accumulated to unprecedented levels in ecosystems that used to get very frequent fires." "

So this article that linked does not suggest "an increase in wildfires is linked to climate change". There is nothing human can do to stop variations in climate; no one other than a nut would suggest we should attempt stop variations in climate.
Look, the main thing about increasing global temperature, depends on increasing humidity. Forest fires seasons are directly related to low humidity. In other words global cooling would accompany lower humidity and therefore cause more fires. But far more significant than global or religional climate in terms of forest fires, is the amount fuel accumulating.

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