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We must acknowledge that wildfires are Mother Nature’s forest medicine.Fire, the primary change agent in the boreal zone, is as crucial to forest renewal as the sun and rain. ... They open the forest canopy to sunlight, which stimulates new growth. They allow some tree species, like lodgepole and jack pine, to reproduce, opening their cones and freeing their seeds.Aug 10, 2020Why forests need fires, insects and diseasesSpend money managing the forest undergrowth is the most urgent priority.“Check out who is managing those forests that are burning. Most fires are on public land where “greens” have demanded a hands-off approach. Private forest lands are managed by professional foresters who know how to reduce the fire hazard, mainly by reducing fuel load.” Patrick Moore climate scientistQuit passing the buck.95% of California fires are unnatural caused by arson or human error. They are not evidence of global warming as they are not global. Most of the US is now in record colder weather. You cannot be a little global warming pregnant.CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES ARE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE. Data over a few years is not relevant and the reality is California wildfires are natural and beneficial from time immemorial.Forest fires release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere but they also produce cooling that lasts for yearsThe researchers calculated that in North America, forest fires like this can cool the climate by around 6 Watts per square metre.In Eurasia, they found that forest fires will cool the climate by around 1.9 Watts per square metre.The study, led by Dr Brendan Rogers at Woods Hole Research Centre in Massachusetts see below.Canada and Europe are having record fewer wildfires now. Climate change is not a hit and miss system. Canada Wildfires At Lowest Level For Years. “ I guess the global CO2 didn’t make it north this year. Wildfires are caused by lightning, people and meteorological condition, not “climate change.”PATRICK MOORE.By Paul Homewood h/t Ben Vorlich According to the Met Office, global warming is leading to record breaking fires in North America. Canada, of course, is a large part of North America,…WILDFIRES POLITICSBiden’s Climate Plans Deserve To Be MockedBy Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom HarrisFebruary 2nd, 2021Biden: “Last year, wildfires burned more than 5,000 acres in the West… More intense and powerful hurricanes and tropical storms pummeled states across the Gulf Coast and along the East Coast… Historic floods, severe droughts have ravaged the Midwest… And the Defense Department reported that climate change is a direct threat to more than two-thirds of the military’s operational critical installations.”Reality: In his January 29th interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, James Taylor, President of the Arlington Heights-based Heartland Institute, explained the problems with blaming these events on global warming:“NASA satellites have been able to measure the amount of land burned by wildfires… what they find is that…over the past 20 to 30 years the area that’s been burned by wildfires has declined by 25%…wildfires have always occurred; they always will occur…[But] objective scientific evidence shows that wildfires are becoming less frequent and severe, as the earth modestly warms.”The real cause of wildfires is described in this article by climatologist Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris.Taylor continued:“Tornadoes, the same thing. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…their data show that tornadoes have again become less frequent and less severe…“Regarding hurricanes, we have hurricane data that shows that the [global] accumulated cyclonic energy, total global energy from hurricanes, we’ve been able to measure that for the past 40 – 50 years and what we see is no increase whatsoever… The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change itself reports that they have low confidence in any links between climate change and hurricanes.”Blaming wildfires, floods, and droughts on climate change has been proven false repeatedly. The Biden administration and its allies’ attempt to rule the nation and the world by fear is the real agenda.… next week, part 2 of “Biden’s climate plans deserve to be mocked.”Trending with: SubwayCanada Wildfires At Lowest Level For YearsSEPTEMBER 27, 2020tags: wildfiresBy Paul HomewoodAccording to the Met Office, global warming is leading to record breaking fires in North America.Canada, of course, is a large part of North America, so surely fires should be getting worse there too.In fact wildfires this year are running at just 8% of the 10-year average:National Wildland Fire Situation ReportUnderstanding WildfiresPresentation by Dr. Willie Soon from DDP 38th Annual Meeting, August 15, 2020, Las Vegas, NVSpend money managing the forest undergrowth is the most urgent priority to address and reduce the harm from California wildfires.“Check out who is managing those forests that are burning. Most fires are on public land where “greens” have demanded a hands-off approach. Private forest lands are managed by professional foresters who know how to reduce the fire hazard, mainly by reducing fuel load.” Patrick Moore climate expert.Quit passing the buck.95% of California fires are unnatural caused by arson or human error. They are not evidence of global warming as they are not global. Much of the US interior is now in record early snow and colder weather. You cannot be a little bit global warming pregnant in California and global cooling in the mid-west.Alarmist call this drone dropping arson ‘climate change.’The Left Calls This Drone Dropping Flames “Climate Change”Oh Maybe They Didn’t Want You To See This. #WakeUpPeoplepic.twitter.com/PZ1xef7ksG— SwampNugget (@swamp_nugget) September 12, 2020California wildfires are not due to climate changeIn this video, author and scientist Tony Heller brilliantly debunks ambulance chasing climate scientists who come out of the woodwork every time there is a natural disaster, like wildfires in California. In fact, burn acreage in the US has plummeted over the past 85 years, as CO2 has increased.California wildfires are not due to climate changeby Geoffrey GriderSeptember 12, 2020As of 2018, the number of dead and uncleared trees in California forest lands exceeded 120,000,000, and that amounts to an incredible amount of kindling to accelerate forest fires. They have no money left to maintain forests after spending $23 billion caring for illegal immigrants.Far Left Liberal Progressive governor of California, Gavin Newsom, got in front of the cameras yesterday and made a ‘very serious’ statement about the raging wildfires currently plaguing their state. He said ““The debate is over around climate change. Just come to the state of California, observe it with your own eyes,” a grinning Newsom told reporters while touring the fire-ravaged North Complex near Oroville. “It’s not an intellectual debate, it’s not even debatable.” Absolute rubbish, to say the least. Let’s begin a real debate, shall we?YES, OUR GLOBAL CLIMATE IS CHANGING RAPIDLY, AND NO, THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT AND THERE IS NO POWER ON EARTH THAT CAN STOP ITAlways makes me laugh, seeing as most Liberals are either atheist or agnostic, that they are such die-hard, true believers in their own religion of Climate Change. And woe be to the infidel who dares to say the emperor has no clothes, or in this case, the governor of California. Let’s leave aside the Liberal hysterics of the pagan, Gaia religion of climate change and take a peek into where the money is currently spent in sanctuary city California:It’s so much easier to blame the imaginary scapegoat of ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’ for the wild fires in California, instead of looking to the incredible mismanagement of the California forest and park lands. California is a sanctuary state, and as such spends over $23 billion each year on the staggering costs associated with caring for illegal immigrants and their children.California Governor Gavin Newsom Spewing Nonsense:According to the California Policy Center, the Golden State’s total state/county/municipal debt tops a staggering $1.3 trillion.[1] Meanwhile, as the state teeters on the brink of economic collapse, its civic and political leaders relentlessly advance laws and policies that attract and reward illegal immigration. And, all the while, they ignore the simple fact that cooperating with the federal government in its efforts to suppress illegal immigration would decrease the massive cost imposed on taxpaying citizens and legal immigrants living in California. READ MOREWhen you are spending that much money to care for illegal immigrants, guess what you don’t have money for? Taking care of the forest lands that require constant care, and California no longer has the money to do that. As of 2018, the number of dead and uncleared trees in California forest lands exceeded 120,000,000, and that amounts to an incredible amount of kindling to accelerate forest fires.California’s ubiquitous pines and oaks are vulnerable to insect infestation and disease. Those giants crash to the forest floor and, unless they are removed, provide ready fodder for the next voracious fire. The die-off is catastrophic, beyond the reach of state foresters to remedy. In many communities of the central and southern Sierra Nevada mountain range, “80 percent of trees are dead,” said Ken Pimlott, former director of Cal Fire.MEMO TO GAVIN NEWSOM: Stop spending all your money on illegal immigrants, and start taking care of the needs of your state and the American citizens that live there. Most of all, quit your pusillanimous blaming of ‘climate change’ as the cause of the wild fires, when the reality is they are caused largely by the sheer incompetence and neglect of your administration.California Governor Gavin Newsome Says Cause Of Wildfires Is 'Climate Change' But It's Actually Massive Mismanagement Of Forest Lands • Now The End BeginsPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2016 Jun 5; 371(1696): 20150345.doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0345PMCID: PMC4874420PMID: 27216515Global trends in wildfire and its impacts: perceptions versus realities in a changing worldStefan H. Doerrand Cristina SantínABSTRACTWildfire has been an important process affecting the Earth's surface and atmosphere for over 350 million years and human societies have coexisted with fire since their emergence. Yet many consider wildfire as an accelerating problem, with widely held perceptions both in the media and scientific papers of increasing fire occurrence, severity and resulting losses. However, important exceptions aside, the quantitative evidence available does not support these perceived overall trends. Instead, global area burned appears to have overall declined over past decades, and there is increasing evidence that there is less fire in the global landscape today than centuries ago. Regarding fire severity, limited data are available. For the western USA, they indicate little change overall, and also that area burned at high severity has overall declined compared to pre-European settlement. Direct fatalities from fire and economic losses also show no clear trends over the past three decades. Trends in indirect impacts, such as health problems from smoke or disruption to social functioning, remain insufficiently quantified to be examined. Global predictions for increased fire under a warming climate highlight the already urgent need for a more sustainable coexistence with fire. The data evaluation presented here aims to contribute to this by reducing misconceptions and facilitating a more informed understanding of the realities of global fire.This article is part of themed issue ‘The interaction of fire and mankind’.Keywords: area burned, fire severity, media, risk, costs, climate changeGo to:1. INTRODUCTIONFire has been an important factor in the dynamics of the Earth's climate and in the development of biomes since its widespread occurrence began 400–350 million years ago (Ma) [1,2]. In fire-prone ecosystems, humans have always coexisted with fire in the landscape, and its use can be seen as the first anthropogenic tool that has affected ecosystem dynamics beyond the very local scale [3]. Whether as open biomass burning or as the relatively recent practice of combusting fossil fuels in engines and power stations, fire has been a key factor in the rise of human societies [4,5]. Yet, over the past couple of centuries the traditional European perception of fire has been implemented in many parts of the world (box 1), and fire in the landscape (commonly termed wildfire, wildland fire or landscape fire) has been typically considered as ‘bad’ and our focus on the whole has been on eliminating or at least containing it [16–18]. The ‘command and control’ attitude of most Western societies neglects the fundamental role that fire has in sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem health [11,19].https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4874420/Climate Alarm Flames Out As Scientists Find Global Fires/Burned Area Has Sharply DECLINED Since 1910sBy Kenneth Richard on13. August 2018The purveyors of climate alarm posit that rising CO2 emissions cause up to 600% increases in burned area due to global warming. Newly published science thoroughly undermines these claims. Observational evidence affirms global-scale fire frequencies and burned area have actually been declining for decades (especially since the early 1900s), with overall biomass burning lower today than during the much colder Little Ice Age.Bottom Graph Source: Ward et al., 2018On a global scale, fire emissions/burned area peaked in the 1910s, but then plummeted to “about 5% below year 1700 levels by 2010” (Ward et al., 2018).The decreasing trend in wildfires has continued unabated in the 21st century, as there has been “a strong statistically significant decline in 2001–2016 active fires globally” (Earl and Simmonds, 2018).On a long-term scale, “global biomass burning during the past century has been lower than at any time in the past 2000 years” (Doerr and Santín, 2016).Even in the Western United States, where wildfires are currently ravaging the landscape, there has been a “decline in burning over the past 3,000 y[ears], with the lowest levels attained during the 20th century and during the Little Ice Age (LIA, ca. 1400–1700 CE)” (Marlon et al., 2012).The perception of increasing fire occurrence vs. the observations of decreasing trendsDoerr and Santín (2016) characterize the association between global warming and increases in wildfires as a “perception” spawned by using selective regional data and short timescales (in other words, by excluding contradictory evidence). The alarming conclusions that wildfires are worsening due to rising anthropogenic CO2 emissions are then promulgated by mainstream media.“Numerous reports, ranging from popular media through to peer-reviewed scientific literature, have led to a common perceptionthat fires have increased or worsened in recent years around the world. Where these reports are accompanied by quantitative observations, they are often based on short timescales and regional data for fire incidence or area burned, which do not necessarily reflect broader temporal or spatial realities.”To summarize, there are “widely held perceptions both in the media and scientific papers of increasing fire occurrence, severity and resulting losses“, and yet “the quantitative evidence available does not support these perceived overall trends” (Doerr and Santín, 2016).Ward et al., 2018Trends and Variability of Global Fire EmissionsDue To Historical Anthropogenic Activities“Globally, fires are a major source of carbon from the terrestrial biosphere to the atmosphere, occurring on a seasonal cycle and with substantial interannual variability. To understand past trends and variability in sources and sinks of terrestrial carbon, we need quantitative estimates of global fire distributions. … Global fire emissions of carbon increase by about 10% between 1700 and 1900, reaching a maximum of 3.4 Pg C yr−1 in the 1910s, followed by a decrease to about 5% below year 1700 levels by 2010. The decrease in emissions from the 1910s to the present day is driven mainly by land use change, with a smaller contribution from increased fire suppression due to increased human population and is largest in Sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia. Interannual variability of global fire emissions is similar in the present day as in the early historical period, but present‐day wildfires would be more variable in the absence of land use change.”Earl and Simmonds, 2018Spatial and Temporal Variability andTrends in 2001–2016 Global Fire Activity“We find that there is a strong statistically significant decline in 2001–2016 active fires globally linked to an increase in net primary productivity observed in northern Africa, along with global agricultural expansion and intensification, which generally reduces fire activity.”Doerr and Santín, 2016Global trends in wildfire and its impacts:perceptions versus realities in a changing world“Wildfire has been an important process affecting the Earth’s surface and atmosphere for over 350 million years and human societies have coexisted with fire since their emergence. Yet many consider wildfire as an accelerating problem, with widely held perceptions both in the media and scientific papers of increasing fire occurrence, severity and resulting losses.”“However, important exceptions aside, the quantitative evidence available does not support these perceived overall trends. Instead, global area burned appears to have overall declined over past decades, and there is increasing evidence that there is less fire in the global landscape today than centuries ago.”“Analysis of charcoal records in sediments [Marlon et al., 2008] and isotope-ratio records in ice cores [Wang et al., 2010] suggest that global biomass burning during the past century has been lower than at any time in the past 2000 years.”“Regarding fire severity, limited data are available. For the western USA, they indicate little change overall, and also that area burned at high severity has overall declined compared to pre-European settlement. Direct fatalities from fire and economic losses also show no clear trends over the past three decades. Trends in indirect impacts, such as health problems from smoke or disruption to social functioning, remain insufficiently quantified to be examined. Global predictions for increased fire under a warming climate highlight the already urgent need for a more sustainable coexistence with fire. The data evaluation presented here aims to contribute to this by reducing misconceptions and facilitating a more informed understanding of the realities of global fire.”Marlon et al., 2012Long-term perspective onwildfires in the western USA“Understanding the causes and consequences of wildfires in forests of the western United States requires integrated information about fire, climate changes, and human activity on multiple temporal scales. We use sedimentary charcoal accumulation rates to construct long-term variations in fire during the past 3,000 y in the American West and compare this record to independent fire-history data from historical records and fire scars. There has been a slight decline in burning over the past 3,000 y, with the lowest levels attained during the 20th century and during the Little Ice Age (LIA, ca. 1400–1700 CE). Prominent peaks in forest fires occurred during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (ca. 950–1250 CE) and during the 1800s.”“Analysis of climate reconstructions beginning from 500 CE and population data show that temperature and drought predict changes in biomass burning up to the late 1800s CE. Since the late 1800s , human activities and the ecological effects of recent high fire activity caused a large, abrupt decline in burning similar to the LIA fire decline. Consequently, there is now a forest “fire deficit” in the western United States attributable to the combined effects of human activities, ecological, and climate changes. Large fires in the late 20th and 21st century fires have begun to address the fire deficit, but it is continuing to grow.”California has a long history wildfires - seePHOTOS: MONDAY’S SNOWFALL BREAKS HISTORICAL RECORD IN CASPERBy Brendan LaChance on September 8, 2020(Dan Cepeda, Oil City)CASPER, Wyo. — The snowstorm that began on Monday, Sept. 7 broke a record in Casper.The Oil City saw its earliest measurable snowfall on record with 2.3 inches accumulating by midnight Monday, according to weather forecaster Ralph Estell, data acquisition program manager with the National Weather Service in Riverton.“This is Wyoming,” he said. “Anything can happen at any time.”PHOTOS: Monday's snowfall breaks historical record in Casper - Casper, WY Oil City NewsSurprise Winter Storm Drops 17 Inches of Snow in Wyoming Just Days After 100-degree WeatherSurprise Winter Storm Drops 17 Inches of Snow in Wyoming Just Days After 100-degree WeatherThe change in weather set the record for the earliest freeze.BY CAILEY RIZZOSEPTEMBER 10, 2020University of Colorado Boulder students play in the snow during an early-season winter storm on September 9, 2020 in Boulder, Colorado.MICHAEL CIAGLO/GETTY IMAGESThe Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains experienced an early dose of winter weather this week as 17 inches of snow covered parts of the country.The quick change in weather, from summer to winter, came seemingly without warning as Rapid City, S.D. set a U.S. record for the fastest switch between 100-degrees, according to NBC News. On Sept. 5, the city reported a temperature of 102 degrees Fahrenheit, an all-time record high for September weather. Two days later, an inch of snow fell and the city set a new record for the earliest first freeze.The two-day difference broke the record for the shortest amount of time between those two weather patterns (the previous record was three days, set by Ardmore, South Dakota in September 1929).The top snowfall this week was set by Casper, Wyoming — which recorded a total of 17 inches of snowfall. Red Lodge, Montana reported 15.5 inches of snow and Terry Peak, South Dakota reported 15 inches.Surprise Winter Storm Drops 17 Inches of Snow in Wyoming Just Days After 100-degree WeatherExtreme Weather GSMJUST COUNT THE COLD-RECORDS THAT FELL OVER THE PAST 24HRSSEPTEMBER 10, 2020 CAP ALLONNOAA won’t want to hear it –I doubt they’ll even properly log it– but HUNDREDS of low temperature records have tumbled across the United States over the past 24 hours as brutal Arctic air sank anomalously-far south on the back of weak and wavy meridional jet stream flow.According to the ‘unofficial’ data compiled by coolwx.com, a plague of new all-time cold records spread across the U.S. over the past 24 hours — an embarrassment of riches for the cold hunters, almost as embarrassing as that paltry handful of heat records tumbling in the far northwest:Only cities having an NCDC GSOD recorded history of at least 35 years are shown here. The records are defined here using GMT, with the day resetting at 00GMT (7PM EST;8PM EDT).In addition to the cold, many regions also received their most-ever snowfall this early in the season: seventeen inches of global warming goodness fell in Wyoming, New Mexico saw its earliest flakes on record, and parts of Colorado suffered their earliest snowfall in decades—these are just a few of the astonishing weather reports coming out of a record-setting September week.Rapid City, SD, set a U.S. record for the fastest turnaround between 100 degree temperatures and measurable snow, after it hit 102 degrees on Saturday, only to then see an inch of snow on Monday. This two-day gap broke the record for shortest amount of time between those two weather observations — the previous record being Ardmore, SD, in Sept 1929 when a similar event took place over the course of approximately three days. And it stands: if proponents of a CO2-induced Apocalypse want to blame human activity for every flip-flopping weather phenomenon, then they also have to acknowledge the natural factors that caused 1929’s swing-between-extremes:Why does early snowfall matter to the weather and climate?Ans. The snow albedo causes declining temperatures and there is an Earth albedo that will change global warming to global cooling. Even the very politically biased UN IPCC recognized that snowfall had a unique impact on the climate and they predicted the end of snow or at least very moderate winters which have been the opposite.False prediction that undercuts fears of global warming.2014 : the global warming theory-obsessed New York Times touted “The End of Snow?”…“The truth is, it is too late for all of that. Greening the ski industry is commendable, but it isn’t nearly enough. Nothing besides a national policy shift on how we create and consume energy will keep our mountains white in the winter — and slow global warming to a safe level.This is no longer a scientific debate. It is scientific fact. The greatest fear of most climate scientists is continued complacency that leads to a series of natural climatic feedbacks…”(Climatism bolds)The End of Snow? – The New York Times2017 : The Age’s resident global warming catastrophist Peter Hannam signalled the end of snow…Snowy retreat: Climate change puts Australia’s ski industry on a downhill slope | The AGEAustralia’s ski resorts face the prospect of a long downhill run as a warming climate reduces snow depth, cover and duration. The industry’s ability to create artificial snow will also be challenged, scientists say.Snowy retreat: Climate change puts Australia’s ski industry on a downhill slope | The AGE***THE SNOW THEY TOLD YOU WOULD “DISAPPEAR” KEEPS ON FALLINGCONTRARY to dire ‘expert’ prognostications and climate models to the contrary, global snowfall continues to fall in abundance, aided by ‘record-breaking cold temperatures’…Crop Loss Extreme Weather GSMNEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR FARMERS SERIOUSLY HAMPERED BY HISTORICALLY HARSH WINTER (AND IT AIN’T OVER YET)MARCH 19, 2020 CAP ALLONWinter 2019/20 has been one of persistent Arctic cold for much of Canada, particularly for Newfoundland and Labrador. The province has been battered by sub-zero temperatures, heavy snow and high winds during the past few months, making life utterly miserable for NL farmers.The worst storm of the season so far was the “historic” blizzard of January 17 and 18, which buried the greater St. John’s region under a record-breaking 76+ cm (2.5+ ft) of snow.Extreme Weather GSMMONSTER SUMMER SNOWDRIFTS BURY THE SOUTHERN-RUSSIAN VILLAGE OF KURUSHAUGUST 26, 2020 CAP ALLONRare and heavy summer snow has settled in the Russian village of Kurush as the air temperature plummeted to just a few notches above freezing.As reported by pogoda.mail.ru, and picked-up by iceagenow.info, out-of-season snowfall has buried Kurush: a southern Russian village situated in the Dagestan Republic, famed for being the highest continuously inhabited settlement in both transcontinental Russia as well as Europe.Despite the village’s high altitude (2480–2560m, depending on the source), its locals were still shocked at the sheer depth of the summer snowdrifts — so much so that they took to social media to share the rare event:What happens when snowfall increases world wide?If Earth was completely covered in ice, its albedo would be about 0.84, meaning it would reflect most (84 percent) of the sunlight that hit it. On the other hand, if Earth was covered by a dark green forest canopy, the albedo would be about 0.14 (most of the sunlight would get absorbed). Changes in ice cover, cloudiness, airborne pollution, or land cover (from forest to farmland, for instance) all have subtle effects on global albedo. Using satellite measurements accumulated since the late 1970s, scientists estimate Earth’s average albedo is about about 0.30.The maps above show how the reflectivity of Earth—the amount of sunlight reflected back into space—changed between March 1, 2000, and December 31, 2011. This global picture of reflectivity (also called albedo) appears to be a muddle, with different areas reflecting more or less sunlight over the 12-year record. Shades of blue mark areas that reflected more sunlight over time (increasing albedo), and orange areas denote less reflection (lower albedo).Taken across the planet, no significant global trend appears. As noted in the anomaly plot below, global albedo rose and fell in different years, but did not necessarily head in either direction for long.March 1, 2000 - December 31, 2011NASA PHOTO OF THE EARTH’S ALBEDOIn the early 2000s, after the first few years of Terra-CERES measurements, it appeared that Earth’s albedo was declining, a phenomenon that was widely reported in scientific journals and on NASA Earth Observatory. But as more years of data accumulated, and as scientists began to better understand the data, they found that albedo was neither increasing nor declining over time. It was fluctuating a lot by year, though.“What the results show is that even at global scales, Earth’s albedo fluctuates markedly over short time periods due to natural variations in the climate system,” said Norman Loeb, CERES principal investigator at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Ice cover, cloud cover, and the amount of airborne particles—aerosols from pollution, volcanoes, and dust storms—can change reflectivity on scales from days to years. “We should not get fooled by short-term fluctuations in the data, as a longer record may reverse any short-term trend.”“The results also suggest that in order to confidently detect changes in Earth’s albedo above natural variability, a much longer record is needed,” Loeb added. “It is paramount that we continue the CERES Terra, Aqua, and Suomi-NPP observations as long as possible, and launch follow-on Earth radiation budget instruments to ensure continued coverage of this fundamental property of the climate system.”Measuring Earth’s Albedo.This photo shows a lightly colored planet which is natural because we continue in the Quaternary Ice Age. The earth albedo is very relevant to climate trends, particularly temperature, but poorly researched by the alarmist crowd. Why? Perhaps the do not like the results.Are wildfires COOLING Earth? Forest blazes make the landscape reflect sunlight to reduce global warming, study findsResearchers at Woods Hole Research Centre looked at the impact of firesForest fires removes vegetation from the landscape changing its colourThis change increases the amount of sunlight reflected back into spaceThe scientists found that forest fires in North America cooled the mostForests in Siberia and northern Europe are more fire resistant, they sayThey say their results will require climate change models to be revisedBy RICHARD GRAY FOR MAILONLINEPUBLISHED: 05:53 EDT, 17 February 2015 | UPDATED: 05:54 EDT, 17 February 2015e-mail55shares91View commentsThey can burn with intense heat that destroys swathes of habitat in just a few hours and throws out huge clouds of thick black smoke.But it seems that despite this pollution, forest fires may actually be helping to cool the planet.Scientists have found that the destruction caused by wildfires in the huge boreal forests of north America and Eurasia can lower temperatures.Forest fires like above can destroy huge areas of vegetation so the landscape reflects more of the sun's heatThis is because fires transform the landscape, allowing snow and ice to cover the ground and changing the amount of sunlight it reflects.Dark green foliage of trees tends to absorb heat from the sun while the snow covered ground is more reflective.The study, led by Dr Brendan Rogers at Woods Hole Research Centre in Massachusetts, found that in areas where the destruction is greatest the cooling affect is also bigger.In total it could account for twice as much cooling as other natural cooling, such as aerosols release from volcanoes, put together.The findings could alter predictions for how the climate is likely to change as carbon dioxide emissions increase.Dr Rogers said that climate scientists may need to factor in the affect of forest fires on global warming in their models.He said: 'Current global fire models neglect the influence of these species-level traits and misrepresent boreal fire feedbacks to climate warming.'We need to move beyond generic representations of trees, and use this information to make informed decisions on how to manage forest fires for climate mitigation.'It has been commonly assumed that forest fires might contribute to global warming by releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.The black soot produced from these fires can also cover the surrounding landscape and absorb heat from the sun.+6The graph above shows the amount of sunlight reflected by the landscape after a forest fire in North America (NA), Eurasia (EU), north east Eurasia (NEEU), southern Eurasia (SEU) and northwest Eurasia (NWEU)+6Spruce forests in North America, like this one above in Yosemite National Park, are particularly flammable+6Black spruce, like above in British Columbia, Canada, can absorb a lot of heat from the sun even in winter but after a forest fire the snow can lie on the ground and reflect much more of the sunlight than beforeHowever, the researchers found that the long-term 'albedo' effect - where the colour of the landscape changes and reflects sunlight - caused by the destruction of the forest by fire has an overall cooling impact, particularly in the cold winter months.The researchers, whose work is published in the journal Nature Geoscience, found that the forests in Alaska and Canada are dominated by black spruce trees that burn ferociously.It is here that the forest fires also seem to cool the climate the most.In northern Europe and Siberia, where the forests are dominated by Scots Pine and larch, their impact on the climate is 69 per cent weaker.This, say the researchers, is because more of the vegetation that covers the ground is destroyed by the fire in the black spruce forests, opening up more of the land to snow cover.+6The diagram above shows how natural and man-made influences can cause 'radiative forcing' of the climate+6Forest fires release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere but they also produce cooling that lasts for yearsThe researchers calculated that in North America, forest fires like this can cool the climate by around 6 Watts per square metre.In Eurasia, they found that forest fires will cool the climate by around 1.9 Watts per square metre.Known as 'radiative forcing' this suggests that forest fires can make a significant contribution to balance global warming from carbon dioxide emissions.Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, Dr Rogers and his colleagues, said: 'Our results provide evidence that fire-related climate feedbacks from the two continents are decidedly different.'It has been shown that fires in North American boreal forests may have an overall cooling effect because of the dominant surface short-wave forcing5.'Although highly dependent on severity, this can be twice as strong as the other combined biogeochemical and aerosol forcing terms, which are generally positive and scale with carbon emissions.'In contrast, fires in boreal Eurasia may be close to climate-neutral or have a warming effect.'We found that current-generation global fire models do not capture the continental differences described above.'Are wildfires COOLING the Earth?