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I wonder how much green house gasses come from these kind of fires in the world.

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• alar44 5y ago
  Not an amount that even remotely matters. Traffic in a day is probably many orders of magnitude more than these put out in a year.
  • Hankenstein2 5y ago
    I don't know 3% seems small but significant... "Across the world, thousands of underground coal fires are burning at any given moment. The problem is most acute in industrializing, coal-rich nations such as China.[7] Global coal fire emissions are estimated to cause 40 tons of mercury to enter the atmosphere annually, and to represent three percent of the world's annual CO2 emissions.[8]" From the wikipedia article above
• blululu 5y ago
  Hard to estimate how much coal is burning per year but the answer seems to be a significant amount. Up to 1% if global CO2 from China (second largest coal reserves at time of writing). This would potentially put the figure at a reasonable level. https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3084/pdf/fs2009-3084.pdf https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3084/pdf/fs2009-3084.pdf