changes in population distribution and land use over the 20th century – including forest fragmentation and the conversion of land for urban development and agriculture – have suppressed wildfires, driving down global burned area by 19%.
However, this decline has been hindered by human-caused warming, which has expanded the area burned by 16% through increasingly hot and dry conditions across much of the world.
- silence7@slrpnk.netOPM3·27 days ago
- You wouldn’t want to actually use nuclear weapons
- You’d need to actually maintain technical geoengineering for hundreds of thousands of years, eg: for something as long as time time period that modern humans have existed.