Delta Merner
Delta Merner is "principal climate scientist" at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Corporations Cause Wildfires
According to an "open access letter"[1] dated 16 May 2023 titled "Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests" by Kristina A Dahl, John T Abatzoglou, Carly A Phillips, J Pablo Ortiz-Partida, Rachel Licker, L Delta Merner and Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the authors allege that increased wildfires are due to emissions from "88 major fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers".
A partisan article at CNN by Rachel Ramirez titled "More than a third of the area charred by wildfires in Western North America can be traced back to fossil fuels, scientists find"[2] citing the "open access letter" explained that researchers in the study came to their conclusions by taking "actual climate data and compar[ing] it to an idealized, modeled version of the world where there was no fossil fuel pollution from the 88 companies..."
References
- ↑ Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests (accessed May 16, 2023)
- ↑ [More than a third of the area charred by wildfires in Western North America can be traced back to fossil fuels, scientists find (accessed May 16, 2023)]