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Fire ignored in climate change modelling
29 April 2009
A Monash researcher is one of 22 scientists from around the world to make recommendations for future climate change analysis to include fire.
Deputy Head of School of Geography and Environmental Science Associate Professor Christian Kull and his colleagues have made a number of recommendations and assessments of carbon emissions in an article published in Science.
"We have called on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to fully-integrate fire into their assessments of global climate change, and consider fire-climate feedbacks, which have been largely absent in global models," Associate Professor Kull said.
The authors claim that intentional deforestation fires alone contribute to up to one-fifth of the manmade increase in carbon dioxide emissions.
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