Wildfires in boreal forests released a record amount of CO2 in 2021

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“It’s also roughly double the emissions in that year [2021] from aviation.”

That year, burning boreal forests released 1.76 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, researchers reported March 2 in a news conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

That’s a new record for the region, which stores about one-third of the world’s land-based carbon. “It’s also roughly double the emissions in that year from aviation,” said earth system scientist Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine. The trend, if it continues, threatens to make fighting climate change even more difficult.Headlines and summaries of the latest Science News articles, delivered to your email inbox every Thursday.

 

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Where do you get your science a popcorn stand. People in your position announced on the cover of Time Magazine in the 1970s that by 1990 3/4 of the world would be covered in Ice. I didn’t believe it then and I don’t believe you now. Please show us the science in your “News”

Keep lying and nothing scientific. Don't forget the climate keeps change itself all the time and never stop.

What's with calling the boreal forest the tiaga forest?

We have all kinds of tankers, pipelines and container ships. Why can't we have water tankers? Water pipelines? Water shops? Private industry won't foot the bill without the promise of massive profits. It would have to be government run. Collect in places being inundated.

Every part of the world is warming faster than every other part.. somehow

The Global North will benefit from global warming.

The man-made global warming lie is the biggest lie and the most expensive lie in history.

How much CO2 was released when Joe Biden the eco-warrior blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?

What about the record release of methane from the Nord Stream attack, compliments of one of our govt's.

No kidding? Fires create smoke? Wow.

Climate_Earth20 again🤐

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