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the title is not the information here -- a read over the papers show that one year of wildfires in California emitted more greenhouse gases than were saved by c

the title is not the information here -- a read over the papers show that one year of wildfires in California emitted more greenhouse gases than were saved by concerted means, over about 17 years. The paper is meant to get attention. Unfortunately, the wildfires situation is quite a bit worse, since 2017, 2019 and 2020 were all record years for wildfire in California, not just 2020. People who measure such things knew this quite some time ago, and the Elsevier-version of this had an egregious typo in the plain language summary section, suggesting a hasty edit job somewhere. Also notable is that yesterday was the California State Summit on Extreme Heat Events, led by presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom. Here at YNews, maybe the angle ought to be the quantitative aspects of the measurement. I suggest that California is not the worst of it, worldwide, and that the science and data handling in California can serve as a lab of sorts, for less-able places around the globe facing new wildfires going into the future.

nomel 4y ago
> facing new wildfires going into the future. I think this is a misunderstanding of California. Wildfires are an ecological necessity here (and I doubt we're unique). In the last 25 years or so, the national forestry service has been failing [1], regarding controlled burns. The laws were changed, just recently, to make them easier to perform, to get the partially man made/unnatural conditions back under control [2]. There may be some climate change involved, but the primary reason is incompetence/mismanagement. 1. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/decades-mismanagement-led-choked-forests-now-it-s-time-clear-n1243599 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/decades-mismanagement-l... 2. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-07/newsom-signs-fire-law-paving-way-for-more-prescribed-burns https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-07/newsom-s...
- mistrial9 4y ago
  thank you- yes I am quite aware of that, maybe I could have added more to clarify that part

nomel 4y ago

> facing new wildfires going into the future. I think this is a misunderstanding of California. Wildfires are an ecological necessity here (and I doubt we're unique). In the last 25 years or so, the national forestry service has been failing [1], regarding controlled burns. The laws were changed, just recently, to make them easier to perform, to get the partially man made/unnatural conditions back under control [2]. There may be some climate change involved, but the primary reason is incompetence/mismanagement. 1. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/decades-mismanagement-led-choked-forests-now-it-s-time-clear-n1243599 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/decades-mismanagement-l... 2. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-07/newsom-signs-fire-law-paving-way-for-more-prescribed-burns https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-07/newsom-s...

mistrial9 4y ago
thank you- yes I am quite aware of that, maybe I could have added more to clarify that part