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Wildfires Cause Cooling in Arctic
credit: Getty Images/NASA Wildfires in Alaska and Canada Had Net Cooling EffectProving that climate science can be anything but intuitive, researchers report that large wildfires could have a net cooling effect. Led by Robert Stone, at the University of Colorado in Boulder, the team studied the wildfires that ravaged Alaskan and Canadian wilderness in 2004. The work is credited with creating a better understanding of the impact of particles and smoke in the atmosphere, which has been one factor of uncertaint...
Source: TreeHugger