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Wildfires Hindering California’s Program to Fight Climate Change

This is a forest back burn or burn out lit by US Forest Service fire specialists. Very few of these trees died and it was generally healthy for the forest. River Complex Fire, Trinity County, California, 2015.

According to scientists, forest fires caused in part by climate change are undermining California’s cap-and-trade system, which is intended to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. California’s cap-and-trade program, which began in 2013, allows businesses to offset carbon emissions by purchasing a limited number of credits, the majority of which are used to… Continue reading Wildfires Hindering California’s Program to Fight Climate Change