The Cooling Effect Of Historic Wildfires

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The Cooling Effect Of Historic Wildfires
By News Staff | August 9th 2018 07:52 AM | Print | E-mail
 
Historically, large atmospheric events like fires and volcanic eruptions have had cooling effects. It is the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", for example, part of which was inspired by the gloom from a volcanic eruption that led to 'a year without a summer' in Europe of 1816.

Fires and other events cause the release of soot and other aerosols to be released which can cool the planet by reflecting sunlight back into space and increasing cloud brightness. A new study finda that such a cooling effect on the planet may have been significantly underestimated by previous researchers.
 
https://www.science20.com/news_staff/the_cooling_effect_of_historic_wildfires-233649

[Sanguine]

So, by stopping forest fires, we may have created some global warming?

 

[Suppressed]

So, by stopping forest fires, we may have created some global warming?

 

This was largely known, so it's ridiculous it wasn't accounted for.  The Clean Air Act also removed some of the counter to warming.