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Canada wildfires last year released more carbon than several countries

by will-burner on 8/28/24, 6:15 PM with 10 comments

  • by ahaucnx on 8/28/24, 7:51 PM

    This -among climate change in general- is one of the reasons we launched the largest crowd sourced real time CO2 map. [1]

    The main idea behind is to create more awareness on local and regional emissions like the wildfires in Canada as well as to generate public available data with a dense network of CO2 sensors for scientific research. [2]

    [1] https://www.airgradient.com/map

    [2] https://www.airgradient.com/blog/airgradient-global-co2-map/

  • by Molitor5901 on 8/28/24, 7:55 PM

    Wow. I do not think people fully appreciate that when a wildfire rips through a community, it's not just leaves and trees, but plastics and everything else.

  • by darby_nine on 8/28/24, 7:35 PM

    I guess we're well within the "self-perpetuating feedback loop" at this point.

  • by ortusdux on 8/28/24, 7:29 PM

    Link to the paper (annoying not found in the Reuters article): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07878-z

  • by barbazoo on 8/28/24, 10:26 PM

    This is a good page showing just how bad last year's fire season was compared to the previous 10 years: https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/wildfires-track...

  • by pvaldes on 8/29/24, 7:45 AM

    And many of those wildfires are criminal activity, so maybe the laws should be updated to include the carbon released on big provoked wildfires as an aggravant punishable. Boycotting the future of the humanity for money shouldn't be scott free

  • by hulitu on 8/29/24, 6:15 PM

    > Canada wildfires last year released more carbon than several countries

    You should have seen oil fields burning in Irak in 2003. /s