A new study led by Professor Ed Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Professor Dargan Frierson, and Patricia DeRepentigny of Université Catholique de Louvain has shown that the increasing boreal fires will slow down global warming. This is the result of aerosols in smoke reflecting more sunlight, which reduces sea ice loss and lowers winter temperatures. Read more about it on The Economist, UW News, and PNAS.