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This isn’t about local ecosystem disruption. It’s about releasing more global warming gasses into the atmosphere than humans have produced since the start of th

This isn’t about local ecosystem disruption. It’s about releasing more global warming gasses into the atmosphere than humans have produced since the start of the industrial revolution.

wavefunction 7y ago
Carbon monoxide is probably preferable to methane in the atmosphere. (attached link discusses carbon dioxide vs methane as greenhouse gases, carbon monoxide is less troublesome than CO2) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327111724.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327111724.h... This is my optimistic take! :D
- garmaine 7y ago
  The peat consists of methane, fyi.
H8crilA 7y ago
Burning down the entire world's vegetation would result in less carbon emissions than we've already emitted. It's actually a pretty mind blowing fact. http://www.futureearth.org/blog/2018-jan-31/how-much-carbon-does-planets-vegetation-hold http://www.futureearth.org/blog/2018-jan-31/how-much-carbon-... > Trees and other vegetation are the planet’s carbon storage closet – absorbing and releasing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in an ongoing cycle. But just how big is that potential? A study from December has calculated that the world’s vegetation, from Amazonian rainforests to Eurasian grasslands, may hold about 450 billion tonnes of carbon today. https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions > From 1870 to 2014, cumulative carbon emissions totaled about 545 GtC. Emissions were partitioned among the atmosphere (approx. 230 GtC or 42%), ocean (approx. 155 GtC or 28%) and the land (approx. 160 GtC or 29%).
- rebuilder 7y ago
  But we're discussing peat, which is accumulated over thousands of years.
  - H8crilA 7y ago
    Pardon my ignorance, that does indeed look worse.
    - H8crilA 7y ago
      Actually it's about carbon trapped in the permafrost, not in the peat. Idk how burning peat contributes to permafrost melt.
- Misdicorl 7y ago
  Elsewhere in the comments someone mentions that the released carbon from all peat burning is about 2.5 times more than all emissions since the start of the industrial revolution.
- lrem 7y ago
  What's discussed here are Siberian permafrost peat fires, not Alaskan forest fires.

This isn’t about local ecosystem disruption. It’s about releasing more global warming gasses into the atmosphere than humans have produced since the start of the industrial revolution.

wavefunction 7y ago

Carbon monoxide is probably preferable to methane in the atmosphere. (attached link discusses carbon dioxide vs methane as greenhouse gases, carbon monoxide is less troublesome than CO2) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327111724.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327111724.h... This is my optimistic take! :D

garmaine 7y ago
The peat consists of methane, fyi.

H8crilA 7y ago

Burning down the entire world's vegetation would result in less carbon emissions than we've already emitted. It's actually a pretty mind blowing fact. http://www.futureearth.org/blog/2018-jan-31/how-much-carbon-does-planets-vegetation-hold http://www.futureearth.org/blog/2018-jan-31/how-much-carbon-... > Trees and other vegetation are the planet’s carbon storage closet – absorbing and releasing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in an ongoing cycle. But just how big is that potential? A study from December has calculated that the world’s vegetation, from Amazonian rainforests to Eurasian grasslands, may hold about 450 billion tonnes of carbon today. https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions > From 1870 to 2014, cumulative carbon emissions totaled about 545 GtC. Emissions were partitioned among the atmosphere (approx. 230 GtC or 42%), ocean (approx. 155 GtC or 28%) and the land (approx. 160 GtC or 29%).

rebuilder 7y ago
But we're discussing peat, which is accumulated over thousands of years.
- H8crilA 7y ago
  Pardon my ignorance, that does indeed look worse.
  - H8crilA 7y ago
    Actually it's about carbon trapped in the permafrost, not in the peat. Idk how burning peat contributes to permafrost melt.
Misdicorl 7y ago
Elsewhere in the comments someone mentions that the released carbon from all peat burning is about 2.5 times more than all emissions since the start of the industrial revolution.
lrem 7y ago
What's discussed here are Siberian permafrost peat fires, not Alaskan forest fires.