> wildfires are already significantly on the rise.

Wildfires at at relatively low levels, historically. US burn acreage is about 10M acres per year at the moment, same as it was in 1955. During the hot dustbowl years burn acreage was as high as 50M/year.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210129125036/https://www.nifc....

You're unaware of this because "scientists" like to truncate wildfire graphs at around 1983, knowing that insufficiently skeptical people won't check if there's data available from earlier years. The choice of 1983 isn't arbitrary, it's when the downward trend in the graph goes into mild reverse as people started to realize that suppressing wildfires isn't always the best policy. There follows a small, gentle rise to a level still far below what it was historically (and arguably, what it should be).

Now, obviously, they don't say that. They say oh dear, in 1983 we changed our process and - incredibly - that they have no idea where data came from before that, so please ignore all previously collected data. The numbers just, like, magically appeared in their spreadsheets. This sort of trick is common, and it correctly leads to distrust as obviously, if they genuinely believe data before 1983 is useless, they can't make statements about the effect of climate change on wildfires one way or another. But that would also be an enormous scandal given all the money spent collecting that data.

> I don’t believe this because science, I know this for a fact because it was proven.

You haven't actually gone out and monitored wildfires with your own eyes, that's impossible. When you say it's a "fact" and "proven", what you mean is, people you trust from institutions you aren't skeptical of told you that they did go out and count wildfire acreage, and that it's a "fact" that wildfires are getting worse. Then you assumed they're completely trustworthy and would never do things like drop data points to force a trend, so it became a fact in your mind and you became unable to understand why anyone might disagree.

Now repeat this problem 1000x. That's where the fighting comes from, where the distrust comes from.