An international team of researchers has found via modeling that unless climate mitigation efforts are stepped up, people living in the U.S. Northwest could see a tripling of particulate matter in the atmosphere by 2050 due to wildfires during the late summer months. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes applying an empirical statistical model to fires projected by Earth System Models to make predictions about future particulate levels.
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