Global Warming to Ignite the Carbon Bomb in Northern Forests
By Stephen Leahy
VANCOUVER, Feb 29, 2012 (IPS)
Rising temperatures are drying out northern forests and peatlands, producing bigger and more intense fires. And this will only get much worse as the planet heats up from the use of ever larger amounts of fossil fuels, scientists warned last week at the end of the major science meeting in Vancouver.
There will be 3x more forest fires with global warming and that's conservative estimate say fire scientists.
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