Bloomberg: Forest fires worsen global warming and make it harder for societies to adapt to drought and higher temperatures, scientists said. Trees and brush set ablaze, by accident or through slash- and-burn farming in the tropics, fuel hotter weather, said Jennifer Balch, a researcher at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, California. That’s because smoke adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. “We don’t think about fire correctly,” Balch said. …