No consensus on fires and AGW: "I will argue this with a lot of my scientific colleagues till we're both blue in the face"

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/08/seattle-wildfire-scientists-snuff-out-myths.html

As to the question of climate change, ongoing research is hinting at a link between hot and dry, and cool and wet spells, with the location and severity of big forest fire breakouts. "I will argue this with a lot of my scientific colleagues till we're both blue in the face," Peterson said, "But for the most part I believe that fire is dependent on climate."