So far, no evidence any specific group is behind this or others before.

Greek officials arrested 160 people on arson charges for the wildfires that ravaged Greece this summer. Previously, the media almost exclusively blamed the Greek wildfires on climate change.

Wildfires have scorched Greece this summer. In the past week, at least 21 people – including two children – lost their lives in connection with the wildfires.

Fire department spokesman Ioannis Artopios said 60 firefighters had been injured attempting to extinguish the blaze as of Thursday.

Firefighters battled 99 separate wildfires across the country on Wednesday.

The fire in the city of Alexandroupolis has burned over 180,000 acres, the largest recorded damage resulting from a wildfire ever within the EU.

8Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said that 160 people had been arrested across the country on arson charges, 42 of them accused of intentional arson and the remainder accused of setting fires through neglect, according to the New York Times.

16 of the people caught were supposedly illegal aliens, some of whom were of Pakistani and Syrian origin. While environmental factors can cause wildfires, the media would be better suited to find out when they occur and even if environmental changes contribute to naturally occurring conflagrations. It would not be surprising if arson or even eco-terrorism is the root cause of much of the wildfire outbreaks in Europe and elsewhere, including Canada and Hawaii.

Michael Shellenberger beautifully summed why all of this is happening:

Politicians, scientists, and the media claim climate change is causing forest fires, but it’s not. Arson, lack of forest management, and bad fire response are. The reason they blame climate change is because they’re power-mad, greedy, and in the grip of an anti-human religion.

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