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What percentage from wildfires?
by mwint 5y ago
What percentage from wildfires?
- sgrove 5y agoQuite an interesting question as well. Looks like SF Chronicle did an article on it [0] and estimates 111,700,000 metric tons released last year (a record year with 4.2 million acres burned). I don't know how that fits into the overall % the the OP shared, but it'd be good to factor into the plan since it's likely to make things worse. [0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/California-wildfires-emitted-a-huge-amount-of-15775044.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Cal...
- jeffbee 5y agoI guess you meant this as some kind of checkmate moment, but wildfire emissions are quantified separately, are considered part of the atmospheric carbon cycle, and are 10-100x smaller than human GHG emissions from fossil fuels, depending on the year. In 2019 they were 1.1%. https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/pubs/reports/2000_2018/ghg_inventory_trends_00-18.pdf https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/pubs/reports/2000_2018/g... https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/pubs/ca_wildfire_co2_emissions_estimates.pdf https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/pubs/ca_wildfire_co2_emi...
- mikeg8 5y agoNot sure why you assume it was a checkmate at all, could have been a purely inquisitive question. But thanks for providing your response with links, I’ve been curious about wildfires as well.
- dv_dt 5y agoIncreased wildfires are a positive feedback effect of too much carbon in the atmosphere… And generally they are releasing carbon that was captured by vegetation fairly recently.