{"id":3092,"date":"2023-05-16T17:29:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2023-05-16T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:29:20","slug":"oil-companies-carbon-led-to-widespread-damage-caused-by-forest-fires-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/16\/oil-companies-carbon-led-to-widespread-damage-caused-by-forest-fires-researchers-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon from oil companies has led to widespread damage from wildfires, researchers have found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The world&#039;s leading corporate carbon producers are responsible for more than a third of the area burned by wildfires in the western United States and southwestern Canada since the 1980s, according to a new study. <\/span><span>Analysis\u00a0<\/span><span>published on Tuesday in the magazine\u00a0<\/span><i><span>Environmental Research Letters<\/span><\/i><span>\u00a0focuses on the 88 largest fossil fuel producers and cement producers, which account for most of the world&#039;s greenhouse gas emissions. It&#039;s a kind of climate attribution study that links rising temperatures to worsening fires and the source of the emissions that fueled them.<\/span><span>&quot;We know that wildfires in western North America are getting worse because of climate change,&quot; said study co-author Carly Phillips, a scientist at the Union for Concerned Scientists&#039; Science Hub for Climate Litigs. \u201cAnd we also know, based on previous research, that emissions from these 88 largest carbon producers have contributed significantly to global warming. And so we wanted to combine these two lines of inquiry to highlight the role of the fossil fuel industry in wildfire management.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s top corporate carbon emitters are responsible for more than a third of the area burned by wildfires in the western United States and southwestern Canada since the 1980s, according to a new study. The analysis, published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, focuses on 88 of the largest fossil fuel and cement producers, which account for the majority of the world\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions. It [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}