Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 16, 2023
In just five years, from 2018 through 2022, wildfires scorched 38.3 But how was Richard Heede able to calculate that, at the time, 90 companies were responsible for nearly two-thirds of the carbon emissions between 1854 and 2010? The US wildfire season used to last about four months, beginning in late summer or early autumn.
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