When it comes to climate change, we’re constantly told to ‘follow the science.’ Yet the same people who say that also regularly fabricate claims about trends in forest fires here in Canada and globally, and the connection to climate change. Science tells us forest fires are not becoming more common and the average area burned peaked 30 years ago. It also tells us greenhouse gases won’t put out fires, and raising the carbon tax will only make it costlier to fight the ones now burning.