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#NASA study tallies carbon emissions from massive Canadian fires

They found that the Canadian fires released more #carbon in five months than Russia or Japan emitted from fossil fuels in all of 2022 (about 480 million and 291 million metric tons, respectively). While the #CarbonDioxide (#CO2) emitted from both #wildfires and #FossilFuel combustion cause extra #warming immediately, there's an important distinction, the scientists noted.

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-nasa-tallies-carbon-emissions-massive.html

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NASA study tallies carbon emissions from massive Canadian fires

Stoked by Canada's warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, NASA scientists have found.
Sally Younger (Phys.org)
#NASA #canada #carbon #co2 #climatecatastrophe #wildfires #fossilfuel #carbondioxide #warming
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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
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The difference is trees grow back (assuming you let them) ultimately create a net neutral carbon emission in the end. The same cant be said for fossil fuel consumption.
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@freemo

Humans have removed half of natural forests, so far.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06723-z


Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential - Nature

Analysis of ground-sourced and satellite-derived models reveals a global forest carbon potential of 226 Gt outside agricultural and urban lands, with a difference of only 12% across these modelling approaches.
Nature
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indeed we have, but that is unrelated to my point... A forest that burns down isnt removed by humans for development, it just burned down. It then grows back and the net neutral carbon is 0.

Now if you showed an event of humans clear cutting and replacing with developed land, that would be a net positive on carbon, presuming it was burnt as fuel. But that isnt what we are seeing here.

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Jakob Thoböll - R.I.P. Natenom
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@freemo This depends on the timescale and the ecologic boundary conditions which allow regrowth. On the other hand, a burned forest, which is at least partly caused by climate crisis, changes erosion patterns, water supply and so on... @tuxom
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