Ok, but now the science is finally settled, am I right?: Fire influences global warming more than previously thought

Fire's potent and pervasive effects on ecosystems and on many Earth processes, including climate change, have been underestimated, according to a new report.

"We've estimated that deforestation due to burning by humans is contributing about one-fifth of the human-caused greenhouse effect -- and that percentage could become larger," said co-author Thomas W. Swetnam of The University of Arizona in Tucson.

There's no [scam] too big for Al Gore's environmental policy advisor

For 38-year-old Amy "Kalee" Kreider, the journey to becoming former vice president Al Gore's environmental policy advisor and communications director in Nashville began with a passion for nature and the outdoors that was nourished by growing up in Central and North Central Florida, including several years in Gainesville.
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In 2002, Kreider was working at Fenton Communications, a Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm that specializes in public service and environmental issues, when Gore first took notice of her. One of Fenton's clients was MoveOn.org, which sponsored most of Gore's speeches on environmentalism. Soon, Kreider found herself working side-by-side with Gore, supplying him with research for his speeches.
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She's been to the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, the Emmy Awards in New York, and to Stockholm in the fall of 2007, when Gore was tapped for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Kreider's life in Gore Country isn't all glitz and glamor. It's more typically a blur of reading newspapers, checking blogs on the Web, commuting to work in Nashville from the farm, working with research teams, responding to media inquires, sending text-messages to her husband, checking in with Gore's special assistant, reading more newspapers and more blogs, and sleeping with her laptop and BlackBerry on her nightstand.