In an op - ed for the New York Times, Stanford professor Noah S. Diffenbaug writes that even though we don't yet know the exact role climate change played in Texas, we would be remiss in discounting it entirely.
Parsing the exactrole a changingclimate played in the historic burns can be challenging, especially in Western forests overstocked with woody kindling due to decades of fire suppression and a relatively hands - off forest management policy.