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Many seeds need smoke in order to sprout; forest fires are necessary

July 12, 2004 - bushfire smoke that helps seeds to germinerate has been discovered by Australian researchers.PhD student Gavin Flematti and colleagues from the University of Western Australia published their research online today ahead of print publication in the journal Science.Many Australian plants, like the acacia, depend on the heat from fires to crack open their seeds before they can germinate.But bushfire smoke can play an even bigger role in seed germination....

ENGINEERED ICE AGE: Congress funds NOAA scientist for geoengineering project to cool the Earth by artificially dimming the sun

June 21, 2021 - bushfire in 2019 and 2020, smoke blocked the sunshine, but the resulting cooling was hardly a success. Nearly a million metric tons of smoke did rise into the stratosphere and block sunlight, but its sunlight-absorbing black carbon particles led temperatures to warm by almost 2 degrees Fahrenheit for six months, something that is believed to have contributed to the persistent hole in the ozone over Antarctica. There was ultimately no cooling effect in the lowest layer of ...