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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I would expect declining O2 concentrations to curtail fire more than fractions of a degree increase in temperature would encourage them.
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Additional warming in the Arctic (world's fastest-warming region) will further exacerbate the polar jet,which will further exacerbate the jet stream,which will further exacerbate unusual spatial and temporal distribution and magnitude of precipitation and heat/cold; which could further impact warming and drought which produce the fuel for the existing wild/bush fires we're experiencing.
If that were to happen,we'd have an increased likelihood for fires,in an atmosphere only microscopically reduced in oxygen content.And the same drought which allowed for the Australian fires also limited the fire department's access to water with which to fight the fires.And that could also be amplified.
I wouldn't want to bet on an oxygen-starved atmosphere as a palliative to global warming effects.
Economists say that the ounce of prevention will easily outshine the pound of cure.