Wildfires and other burns play bigger role in climate change

Wildfires and other burns play bigger role in climate change
Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2014 - It has long been known that biomass burning - burning forests to create agricultural lands, burning savannah as a ritual , slash-and-burn agriculture and wildfires - figures into both climate change and public health. But until the release of a new study by Stanford University Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Mark Z. Jacobson, the degree of that contribution had never been com ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/Wildfires_and_other_burns_play_bigger_role_in_climate_change_999.html