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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

Previous studies have quantified the share of increasing average temperatures, rising sea levels , and ocean acidification attributable to major industrial emitters. The Alder fire in the Druid Complex in Yellowstone National Park, August 19, 2013. This latest study extends that analysis to the realm of wildfires.

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

Many experts and nonexperts alike consider the idea of deliberately mucking about with Earth’s climate systems to counteract centuries of mostly accidental mucking about in Earth’s climate systems ethically dubious and potentially highly dangerous. And that’s a huge intergenerational obligation, which engages really deep ethical concerns.”