Progressive politicians and the media were quick to connect the Los Angeles wildfires to climate change.  This week, President Biden called climate change “the single greatest existential threat to humanity.”

But Harry Enten, CNN’s senior data reporter, bluntly reported that searches for “wildfires” are up 2,400% so far this month and are the highest ever. But searches for “climate change” are down 9%, and lower even in fire-stricken California.

Enten says the Gallup Poll reports that the percentage of Americans who say they worry about climate change has barely budged in the last 30 years – “It was 35% according to Gallup in 1991 and in 2023 it’s 39% – a statistically insignificant difference.”

Enten concludes:  “Americans are definitely interested in learning about these wildfires… but they are not making that connection with climate change.”

Americans have it right. As we reported a few days ago, wildfires were much worse in the 1930s than they are today.  And there is simply no trend in extreme weather events in recent decades: