For years I did lung surgery most every day of the week. When I opened a patient’s chest to operate on a lung, I’d look between the spread ribs, and the truth of our environment would be right there before me. I often saw lungs blackened by years of inhaled carbon particles. I saw the…
Yet another reality of a warming planet is the increasing pace and scale of wildfires. Their deleterious impact creates conditions that favor further wildfires by dumping greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere which contributes to more warming. The now burned forest no longer contributes to the local hydrological cycle, nor does it shelter wildlife; the…