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12“Fires are obviously one of the major responses to climate change, but fires are not only a response — they feed back to warming, which feeds more fires,” Thomas Swetnam of University of Arizona said. Russian forests contain more than 50% of the carbon stores in the Northern Hemisphere. Some burnings in Siberia exceeded the size of the US State of Virginia in recent years.
Source: Fire Influences Global Warming More Than Previously Thought – Science Daily
Date: 29 April 2009
These warnings come from an international team of fire specialists from six nations. One of them, Thomas Swetnam of the University of Arizona in Tucson said “We’ll be seeing more and longer droughts, and with more hot and dry years, we’ll be seeing still more and larger fires.” California’s fire in 2008 wiped out 380,310 acres. In 2009, California is dealing with their 3rd year of serious drought.
Source: Wildfires add to speed of global warming – San Francisco Chronicle
Date: 24 April 2009
Scientists at a geosciences conference in Vienna predict fires will increase and could spread to previously fire-free parts of the world as the climate changes, and in turn contribute to global warming by producing greenhouse gases. In 2007, more than 200 wild fires erupted in Southeastern Europe. Canadian fires are expected to double with a longer fire season by the end of century.
Source: Wild fires likely to spread due to global warming – Reuters
Date: 17 April 2008
Eucalyptus forest and farms in south-eastern Australia are getting warmer, drier and more prone to fire due to global warming. Tens of thousands of wildfires blaze every season, with climate change exacerbating their intensity.
Source: Australia Wildfires Caused Partly By Global Warming, Says Expert – Huffington Post
Date: 10 February 2009
A new report shows that all fires combined release an amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere equal to 50 percent of that coming from the combustion of fossil fuels. “It’s very clear that fire is a primary catalyst of global climate change,” said Swetnam, director of UA’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. Huge areas of boreal forests of Siberia, Canada and northern Europe burn each year.
Source: Fire Influences Global Warming More Than Previously Thought – U.S. News
Date: 4 May 2009
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Plant-Based Diets - A solution to our public health crisis Download |
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Leaders Preserving Our Future - Insights Paper - WPF - November 2010 Download |
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Maintaining a Climate of Life - Summary Report Download |
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Livestock's Climate Impact Download |
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Livestock & Sustainable Food Download |
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Reducing Shorter-Lived Climate Forcers Through Dietary Change Download |
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The global cost of biodiversity loss: 14 trillion Euros? - EU Commission (2008) Download |
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Forests, Fisheries, Agriculture: A Vision for Sustainability (2009) Download |
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Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 - United Nations (2010) Download |
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