Jerry,
Wildfires have existed in the West for as far back as US history goes...even back to the Native Americans.
You need to do your research and you will find that Wildfires have nothing to do with Climate Change or Global Warming. Wildfires are related to weather.....however, Climate Change and weather are not the same thing and are not interchangeable.
When there is less rain we have droughts and that increases the chance of Wildfires. The warm dry weather in the west is often blamed on El Nino, and La Nino. These are circulating warm water currents in the Pacific ocean that are known to be caused by volcanic hot spots under the ocean floor (where the Earth's crust is thinner).
The Hawaiian Islands were formed this way and the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island has been erupting continuously since 1983. Other hot spots under the ocean's floors are not erupting, but are warm enough to heat the ocean and cause convection currents that turn the ocean's thermal balance upside down because the water at the bottom is normally colder than the water near the surface. That's what an El Nino is and why it has such a major impact on weather in the western US.
Have you noticed how they have changed the term from Global Warming to Climate Change??? They always change the rules of the Global Warming Theory when things don't go their way? Have you noticed the number of scientific reports over the last few years that clearly show the planet is in a cooling period....The ice caps have expanded by 40% just in the past 1-2 years !! Some scientist are even predicting that we are entering and extremely cold period of perhaps 100 years duration?
As Redfish said, Climate Change has gone on for over 4 Billion years, and it will continue to go on. The question is whether mankind has had any influence on these climate changes, and can man do anything about it? The answer is NO ! We did not cause it and we cannot change it.
...Rich