Remove Global warming Remove North America Remove Ocean acidification
article thumbnail

Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. Instead, an additional area spanning almost 20 million acres, or roughly the size of Maine, has burned in forest fires across western North America since 1986.

article thumbnail

Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

After the Tambora volcano in Indonesia erupted in 1815, parts of Europe and North America saw a “year without summer.” Solar geoengineering, for example, does nothing to ameliorate ocean acidification, which occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. degree Celsius (0.9