Comments on: Book review – Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time

By: Book review – Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 14:57:39 +0000

[…] started experiencing wildfires (I wrote more about this in my review of Andrew Scott’s Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time, he is an authority on this topic). At atmospheric oxygen levels of 30% (vs. our current 21%) fires […]

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By: Book review – The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:56:29 +0000

[…] 21% for several hundred million years and points to fossil charcoal as evidence. Contrast this with Burning Planet, a book on fossil charcoal, which discussed various attempts at reconstructing historic oxygen […]

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By: Book review – The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:15:03 +0000

[…] to several hundreds of degrees centigrade. It would have ignited global wildfires, though some, notably fossil charcoal researcher Andrew C. Scott, contest this. Finally, the impact injected vast amounts of sulfate aerosols into the atmosphere as […]

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By: Book review – The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 09 May 2022 10:32:18 +0000

[…] of fire. First-fire is the oldest, its history stretching back some 420 million years. The study of fossil charcoal shows that lightning sparked fires as soon as plants developed on land. Second-fire was wielded by […]

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By: Book review – A Polar Affair: Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 13:13:19 +0000

[…] Rediscovered). And the idea of a global conflagration following impact is not supported by research on fossil charcoal. Similarly, the fear of AI running rampant has its share of […]

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By: Book review – End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 30 May 2020 16:13:52 +0000

[…] Rediscovered). And the idea of a global conflagration following impact is not supported by research on fossil charcoal. Similarly, the fear of AI running rampant has its share of […]

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inquisitivebiologist — Sat, 26 May 2018 13:41:53 +0000

Here’s an interesting article from The Atlantic, highlighting the wildfires caused by above-ground power lines in the US.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/power-lines-are-burning-the-west/561212/

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